OBIS Canada

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OBIS Canada is the Canadian regional node of the International Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS).

Maria Cornthwaite
maria.cornthwaite@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

Peter Kraska
peter.kraska@dfo-mpo.gc.ca

17,000,840
occurrence records
14,113
taxa
11,164
species
306
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 545,949
3.2%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 13,891,447 64,467
82.1%
decimalLatitude 128,962 39,536
1.0%
decimalLongitude 128,991 39,539
1.0%
eventDate 1,012,108 565,323
9.3%
individualCount 1,700
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 9,573,639 2,701
56.3%
minimumDepthInMeters 10,058,331 1,096
59.2%
occurrenceStatus 2,113,761 121,290
13.1%
scientificName 18,425
0.1%
scientificNameID 764,902 320,791
6.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,573,554
56.3%
ON_LAND 2,053,188
12.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 1,065,707
6.3%
NO_MATCH 222,657
1.3%
NO_COORD 168,532
1.0%
NOT_MARINE 129,120
0.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 103,939
0.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 57,191
0.3%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,539
0.2%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,536
0.2%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 15,804
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 7,596
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 5,527
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 4,581
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 2,481
0.0%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 749
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 113
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 74
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 71
0.0%
DATE_BEFORE_MIN 6
0.0%