AfrOBIS

Open in mapper Explore occurrences

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Tshikana Rasehlomi
TRasehlomi@environment.gov.za

Ayanda Mahanjana
AMahanjana@dffe.gov.za

3,719,864
occurrence records
19,706
taxa
16,184
species
63
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 95 37,879
1.0%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 3,688,381
99.2%
decimalLatitude 52,208
1.4%
decimalLongitude 52,215
1.4%
eventDate 76,268 28,265
2.8%
individualCount 469
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 3,346,798 3,527
90.1%
minimumDepthInMeters 3,359,894 2
90.3%
occurrenceStatus 3,512,505 2,673
94.5%
scientificName 31,669
0.9%
scientificNameID 84,412 724
2.3%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 3,334,544
89.6%
ON_LAND 1,666,172
44.8%
NOT_MARINE 71,159
1.9%
NO_MATCH 58,491
1.6%
NO_COORD 52,217
1.4%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 36,457
1.0%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 12,498
0.3%
MARINE_UNSURE 9,267
0.2%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 3,248
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 1,988
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 1,173
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 482
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 206
0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE 2
0.0%