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IMOS Ships of Opportunity Underway Data from AIMS Vessel RV Cape Ferguson Trip 8482 From 31 Jan 2025 To 16 Feb 2025

Name: IMOS Ships of Opportunity Underway Data from AIMS Vessel RV Cape Ferguson Trip 8482 From 31 Jan 2025 To 16 Feb 2025
Published: 2026

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Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) ; Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)

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Use Limitation: All AIMS data, products and services are provided "as is" and AIMS does not warrant their fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. While AIMS has made every reasonable effort to ensure high quality of the data, products and services, to the extent permitted by law the data, products and services are provided without any warranties of any kind, either expressed or implied, including without limitation any implied warranties of title, merchantability, and fitness for a particular purpose or non-infringement. AIMS make no representation or warranty that the data, products and services are accurate, complete, reliable or current. To the extent permitted by law, AIMS exclude all liability to any person arising directly or indirectly from the use of the data, products and services.

Attribution: Format for citation of metadata sourced from Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS) in a list of reference is as follows: "Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS). (2026). IMOS Ships of Opportunity Underway Data from AIMS Vessel RV Cape Ferguson Trip 8482 From 31 Jan 2025 To 16 Feb 2025. https://apps.aims.gov.au/metadata/view/2E8BFC88-8FEB-2E59-E064-6805CAA9DBF0, accessed[date-of-access]".

Data Usage ConstraintsThe citation in a list of references is: "IMOS [year-of-data-download], [Title], [data-access-URL], accessed [date-of-access].Any users of IMOS data are required to clearly acknowledge the source of the material derived from IMOS in the format: "Data was sourced from the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) - IMOS is a national collaborative research infrastructure, supported by the Australian Government." If relevant, also credit other organisations involved in collection of this particular data stream (as listed in 'credit' in the metadata record).

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'Ships of Opportunity' (SOOP) is a facility of the Australian 'Integrated Marine Observing System' (IMOS) project. This data set was collected by the SOOP sub-facility 'Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels' aboard the RV Cape Ferguson Trip 8482.

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: asNeeded

Statement: All sensors are factory calibrated and then calibrated and serviced every six months.The clocks on all instruments are set each night at mid-night from a central server which is turn has its clock set off an NTP server. Typical time drift in a day is a few seconds.The clocks on all instruments are set each night at mid-night from a central server which is turn has its clock set off an NTP server. The location of all fixed equipment is recorded using a standard GPS so the accuracy should be within 5-10m using WGS-84. All mobile equipment has an on-board GPS and so should have equivalent accuracy although is will be around 10-20m due to the nature of the movement of the buoys. Instruments are replaced and serviced at regular intervals. There is a single metadata record for each research trip with the deployment details for each of the sensors that make up the underway sensor package described in the metadata record. Data are quality controlled by validating against a set of rules (bounds checking, etc) and then flagged using the IODE set of flags.

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Australia'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.

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Australian Bureau of Meteorology

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Great Barrier Reef Ocean Observing System (GBROOS), a geographic node of the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) project

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Australian Institute of Marine Science (AIMS)

Modified: 02 09 2026

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IMOS Ships of Opportunity Underway Data from AIMS Vessel RV Cape Ferguson Trip 8482 From 31 Jan 2025 To 16 Feb 2025

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