HRC Vessel Survey off Kaua'i, January 2012

The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

In order to support the U.S. Navy in meeting regulatory requirements for monitoring established under the Final Rules and to provide a mechanism to assist with coordination of program objectives under the ICMP, this survey was conducted to confirm the Marine Mammal Monitoring on Navy Ranges (M3R) acoustic detections and marine mammal satellite tagging was prior to a training event, the Submarine Commander’s Course exercise, which would be conducted in the same area during February 2012.

The survey occurred from 11 to 19 January 2012 in the waters west of Kaua'i in the Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF) instrumented range within the HRC. This cruise was designed as a non-random, non-systematic survey designed to optimize encounter rates for the purpose of visual validation of acoustic detections and satellite tagging of species for which population size, habitat use, and movement pattern data are lacking and which may be exposed to U.S. Navy training.

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[2017-10-13] Data fields are changed so that they follow other Navy datasets.

Overview

This section explains attributes included in the original dataset. OBIS-SEAMAP restricts the attributes available to the public to date/time, lat/lon and species names/counts only. Should you need other attributes described here, you are encouraged to contact the data provider.

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
objectid	Internal ID
altitudem	Altitude in meters
angle	Angle
animalheading	(blank)
animallatitude	(blank)
animallongitude	(blank)
bearing	Bearing
beaufortscale	Beaufort sea scale
behavioralevent	(blank)
calvespercent	(blank)
calvestotal	(blank)
contract	Contract name
obs_date	Date of the sighting (local time zone)
efforttype	Effort type (ON or OFF)
groupbest	Best estimate of group size
grouphigh	High estimate of group size
groupid	(blank)
grouplow	Low estimate of group size
island	(blank)
legnumber	Leg number
legtype	Leg type
notes	Notes
numberreacted	(blank)
observer	Observer ID
observerport	(blank)
observerstarboard	(blank)
pctime	(blank)
percentcloudcover	(blank)
photoframes	(blank)
photos	(blank)
platform	Platform (always Vessel)
platformded	(blank)
platformheadingmagnetic	(blank)
platformheadingtrue	(blank)
platformlatitude	Latitude in decimal degrees
platformlongitude	Longitude in decimal degrees
range	definition not provided
reaction	(blank)
reticle	Reticle
sightability	(blank)
sightingnumber	Sighting number
sightingtype	Sighting type (always Standard)
species	Species name recorded
speciescode	Species code by provider
speciescodebw	(blank)
speciescomname	Species common name
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
specieshauledout	(blank)
speciespossresight	(blank)
speciessciname	Species scientific name
surveycat	(blank)
surveyid	Survey ID
surveylink	(blank)
surveytype	Survey type
swell	swell height
obs_time	Time of the sighting (local time zone)
timeend	(blank)
timestamp_	(blank)
video	(blank)
depth	Botom depth in meters
recordno	Record Number
separator	(blank)
aspect	(blank)
binoculars	(blank)
cargoships	(blank)
confidence	(blank)
conversionfactor	(blank)
crc_number	(blank)
cue	Cue of the sighting
endlatitude	(blank)
endlongitude	(blank)
eventnumber	(blank)
females	(blank)
ferries	(blank)
fishingboats	(blank)
glare	(blank)
glareleft	(blank)
glaremaxangle	(blank)
glareminangle	(blank)
glareright	(blank)
groupcohesion	(blank)
initialbehavior	(blank)
juveniles	(blank)
males	(blank)
militaryvessels	(blank)
maxdispersion	(blank)
mindispersion	(blank)
mixedgroup	(blank)
mixedwithsighting	(blank)
mixedwithspecies	(blank)
motoryachts	definition not provided
newborns	definition not provided
numofanimalsmixed	definition not provided
observeraft	(blank)
observerforward	(blank)
percentspecies	definition not provided
reactiontype	definition not provided
recorder	Recorder ID
sailingboats	definition not provided
speed	definition not provided
subgroups	Group code
surveynumber	definition not provided
surveysegmentid	definition not provided
surveysegmentno	definition not provided
unidadults	definition not provided
unknowntype	definition not provided
visibility	Visibility
visibilityleft	Visibility code of the left side
visibilityright	Visibility code of the right side
weather	definition not provided
winddirection	(blank)
windspeed	(blank)
time_text	definition not provided
date_text	definition not provided
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP