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

Pablo Deschepper
pdeschepper@naturalsciences.be

Charlie Plasman
cplasman@naturalsciences.be

2,995,032
occurrence records
13,492
taxa
11,240
species
143
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 2,975,501
99.3%
decimalLatitude 3,461 1,864
0.2%
decimalLongitude 2,871 2,297
0.2%
eventDate 240,751 6,762
8.3%
individualCount 289
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 2,687,505 2,293
89.8%
minimumDepthInMeters 2,791,844 1,898
93.3%
occurrenceStatus 2,630,136 39,933
89.1%
scientificName 8,554
0.3%
scientificNameID 125,850 6,879
4.4%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 2,671,006
89.2%
ON_LAND 163,967
5.5%
NO_MATCH 22,050
0.7%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 19,021
0.6%
MARINE_UNSURE 13,942
0.5%
NOT_MARINE 8,362
0.3%
NO_COORD 5,864
0.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 3,483
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 1,334
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%