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

60,640,622
occurrence records
99,761
taxa
80,587
species
508
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 1,265
0.0%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 18,337,042 644
30.2%
decimalLatitude 809,202 463,806
2.1%
decimalLongitude 809,183 463,813
2.1%
eventDate 710,438 952,875
2.7%
individualCount 15,990
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 8,646,381 641,365
15.3%
minimumDepthInMeters 8,506,210 632,068
15.1%
occurrenceStatus 2,515,302 1,495,500
6.6%
scientificName 60,102
0.1%
scientificNameID 3,618,027 607,998
7.0%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,131,492
15.1%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 4,338,810
7.2%
ON_LAND 4,232,307
7.0%
NO_COORD 1,273,062
2.1%
NOT_MARINE 746,568
1.2%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 544,772
0.9%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 463,813
0.8%
LAT_OUT_OF_RANGE 463,806
0.8%
NO_MATCH 439,136
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 39,698
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 1,206
0.0%
DATE_BEFORE_MIN 89
0.0%
DATE_IN_FUTURE 54
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 43
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 36
0.0%