OBIS USA

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Ocean Biodiversity Information System USA (OBIS-USA) brings together marine biological observation data – recorded observations of identifiable marine species at a known time and place, collected primarily from U.S. Waters or with U.S. funding.

Mark Wiltermuth
mwiltermuth@usgs.gov

Mathew Biddle
mathew.biddle@noaa.gov

61,364,247
occurrence records
101,155
taxa
81,194
species
512
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 1,266
0.0%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 18,985,393 646
30.9%
decimalLatitude 808,138 150
1.3%
decimalLongitude 808,118 157
1.3%
eventDate 710,240 490,769
2.0%
individualCount 15,990
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 8,606,677 641,365
15.1%
minimumDepthInMeters 8,464,710 632,068
14.8%
occurrenceStatus 2,469,596 1,495,509
6.5%
scientificName 60,060
0.1%
scientificNameID 3,569,950 608,255
6.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,091,447
14.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 4,359,383
7.1%
ON_LAND 4,193,023
6.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 900,078
1.5%
NO_COORD 808,342
1.3%
NOT_MARINE 714,777
1.2%
NO_MATCH 438,864
0.7%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 83,112
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 44,689
0.1%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 44,093
0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE 40,463
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 22,057
0.0%
DEPTH_OUT_OF_RANGE 17,124
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 1,470
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 1,208
0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 157
0.0%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 150
0.0%
DATE_BEFORE_MIN 92
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 54
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 43
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 36
0.0%