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

16,244,449
occurrence records
13,871
taxa
11,017
species
294
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 545,949
3.4%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 13,742,952 64,467
85.0%
decimalLatitude 126,343 39,536
1.0%
decimalLongitude 126,372 39,539
1.0%
eventDate 1,009,954 131,595
7.0%
individualCount 1,700
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 9,539,221 4,045
58.7%
minimumDepthInMeters 10,023,913 2,440
61.7%
occurrenceStatus 2,113,734 121,290
13.8%
scientificName 18,510
0.1%
scientificNameID 754,624 317,971
6.6%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,540,480
58.7%
ON_LAND 2,045,883
12.6%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 934,873
5.8%
NO_MATCH 218,225
1.3%
NO_COORD 165,913
1.0%
NOT_MARINE 132,511
0.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 100,797
0.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 58,687
0.4%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,539
0.2%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 39,536
0.2%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 6,936
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%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 2,272
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 3
0.0%