Brief description
In its first decade, the Integrated Marine Observing System's Animal Tracking Facility (formerly known as the Australian Animal Tracking And Monitoring System (AATAMS)) established a permanent array of acoustic receivers around Australia to detect the movements of tagged marine animals in coastal waters. Simultaneously, the Animal Tracking Facility developed a centralised national database (https://animaltracking.aodn.org.au/) to encourage collaborative research across the Australian research community and provide unprecedented opportunities to quantify individual behaviour across a broad range of taxa.This static dataset presents the first 10 years (2007 - 2017) of quality-controlled animal detections collated via the IMOS Australian Animal Acoustic Telemetry Database. The dataset comprises 48.5 million valid detections collected at 1891 receiving stations around Australia, and consists of detection data for 3523 tags deployed on 117 species (fish, sharks, rays, reptiles, and mammals), with distances travelled ranging from a few to thousands of kilometres.
To access subsequent additions in a dynamic database, please refer to the following metadata record: https://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/541d4f15-122a-443d-ab4e-2b5feb08d6a0
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Maintenance and Update Frequency: notPlanned
Statement: Historical duplicate transmitter IDs and tag transmission collisions caused by multiple transmitters within range of the same receiver or environmental noise can generate erroneous data thus entailing the development of statistical methods that automatically flag possible invalid detections. We developed a flexible quality control (QC) procedure for acoustic detection data that assesses, for each individual tag (only VEMCO tags were used in this study), the validity of detections based on a computed set of metrics and can be re-used for other acoustic telemetry networks. We applied this QC algorithm to the raw detections stored in the ATF back-end database. For researchers to re-use detection data easily we computed a field, 'Detection_QC', summarising the output of the five tests undertaken on individual detections, i.e. 'FDA_QC', 'Distance_QC', ?Velocity_QC?, 'DetectionDistribution_QC', and 'DistanceRelease_QC'. If five of these fields had a valid QC flag of 1, then 'Detection_QC' was assigned 1, meaning the detection is deemed 'valid'. If only four of these fields had a QC flag of 1 then 'Detection_QC' = 2, meaning the detection is 'likely to be valid'. Detections having three or less than three of these five fields with a QC flag of 1 were considered 'likely invalid' or 'invalid', respectively.
Notes
CreditAustralia's Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent. It is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent.
Credit
Ocean Tracking Network (OTN): in-kind support
Ocean Tracking Network (OTN): in-kind support
Issued: 27 07 2017
Data time period: 18 11 2007 to 17 03 2017
text: uplimit=150; downlimit=0
Subjects
ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES |
ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES |
ARTHROPODS |
Acoustic Array |
Acoustic Curtain |
Acoustic Receiver |
Acoustic Tag |
BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION |
BIOSPHERE |
Crustaceans |
Cephalopods |
Countries | Australia |
EARTH SCIENCE |
ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS |
Fish |
Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean |
Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean |
Migratory Rates/routes |
Mollusks |
Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC |
Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA |
Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Mammals |
Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Reptiles |
Regional Seas | Coral Sea |
Regional Seas | Tasman Sea |
Regional Seas | Timor Sea |
SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS |
States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales |
States, Territories (Australia) | Northern Territory |
States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland |
States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia |
States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania |
States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria |
States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia |
Tags and Tracking Devices |
oceans |
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Other Information
(Animal Tracking Facility - Data Access URL. This page is a point of access for all publicly accessible data (not quality-controlled) collected by the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility as well as the data entry and upload point for facility members.)
uri :
https://animaltracking.aodn.org.au/
(Data paper in Scientific Data)
uri :
https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017206
(OGC WFS help documentation)
uri :
https://help.aodn.org.au/web-services/ogc-wfs/
global : a35d02d7-3bd2-40f8-b982-a0e30b64dc40
Identifiers
- global : 0ede6b3d-8635-472f-b91c-56a758b4e091
- DOI : 10.4225/69/5979810A7DD6F
