JAX FIREX Aerial Monitoring April-May 2013

The U.S. Navy Marine Species Monitoring Program

Aerial marine species monitoring occurred 29 April through 01 May 2013 for a Firing Exercise (FIREX) with Integrated Maritime Portable Acoustic Scoring and Simulator (IMPASS) event that occurred in the Jacksonville (JAX) Range Complex off the eastern coast of Florida within the United States (U.S.) Navy’s FIREX boxes BB and CC. These types of events occur periodically throughout the year and allow the U.S. Navy to fulfill essential training requirements.

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[2014-07-02] The unit of Distance field was wrong in the metadata. It is in meters.

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)
sgt_id	Sighting ID
obs_date	Date of the sighting
obs_time	Time of the sighting (local time zone)
species	Species name
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
latitude	Latitude in decimal degrees
longitude	Longitude in decimal degrees
obs_count	Group size (best estimate)
grp_high	Group size (maximum)
grp_low	Group size (minimum)
calves	Number of calves (no calves sighted)
beaufort	Beaufort sea state
vert_angle	Vertical angle in degrees
distance	Distance off Track in meters
bearing	Bearing angle in degrees
heading	Heading in degrees
bottom_depth	Bottom depth im meters
behavior	Behavioral summary
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP