Antarctic OBIS

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The OBIS node for Antarctica is run by the Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) under the aegis of the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research (SCAR).

Anton Van de Putte
avandeputte@naturalsciences.be

Yi Ming Gan
ymgan@naturalsciences.be

Charlie Plasman
charlieplasman99@gmail.com

Pablo Deschepper
pdeschepper@naturalsciences.be

2,997,137
occurrence records
13,710
taxa
11,313
species
146
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,976,444
99.3%
decimalLatitude 3,461 1,864
0.2%
decimalLongitude 2,871 2,297
0.2%
eventDate 241,694 6,778
8.3%
individualCount 289
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,687,528 2,293
89.7%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,791,867 1,898
93.2%
occurrenceStatus 2,628,033 40,190
89.0%
scientificName 8,554
0.3%
scientificNameID 125,553 5,187
4.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,671,029
89.1%
ON_LAND 164,054
5.5%
NO_MATCH 22,011
0.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 19,218
0.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 13,942
0.5%
NOT_MARINE 8,362
0.3%
NO_COORD 5,864
0.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 3,499
0.1%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 2,297
0.1%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 2,003
0.1%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 1,864
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 1,384
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 1,332
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 1,193
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 1,015
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 185
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 136
0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE 4
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 3
0.0%