OBIS USA

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Ocean Biodiversity Information System USA (OBIS-USA) brings together marine biological observation data – recorded observations of identifiable marine species at a known time and place, collected primarily from U.S. Waters or with U.S. funding.

Mathew Biddle
mathew.biddle@noaa.gov

Laura Brenskelle
laura.brenskelle@noaa.gov

61,492,445
occurrence records
101,577
taxa
81,194
species
520
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 1,266
0.0%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 19,051,040 646
31.0%
decimalLatitude 813,454 150
1.3%
decimalLongitude 813,435 157
1.3%
eventDate 713,996 491,946
2.0%
individualCount 15,990
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 8,622,429 641,365
15.1%
minimumDepthInMeters 8,479,619 632,068
14.8%
occurrenceStatus 2,480,062 1,495,509
6.5%
scientificName 60,266
0.1%
scientificNameID 3,580,528 608,248
6.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,106,355
14.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 4,364,178
7.1%
ON_LAND 4,207,473
6.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 900,091
1.5%
NO_COORD 813,658
1.3%
NOT_MARINE 719,762
1.2%
NO_MATCH 439,612
0.7%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 83,112
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 44,690
0.1%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 44,095
0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE 40,470
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 22,035
0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE 17,124
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 1,470
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 1,208
0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 157
0.0%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 150
0.0%
DATE_BEFORE_MIN 92
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 54
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 43
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 36
0.0%