OBIS Australia

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OBIS Australia is the regional OBIS Node for Australia. Its aim is fostering the online provision of marine species data from the Australian region and adjacent seas, or data from Australian providers, into the OBIS international data network. These data can also be forwarded to GBIF and Atlas of Living Australia (ALA) on a case by case basis. The website describes our activities and related resources.

Katherine Tattersall
katherine.tattersall@csiro.au

Sachit Rajbhandari
sachit.rajbhandari@csiro.au

Andres Roubicek
andres.roubicek@csiro.au

49,191,715
occurrence records
57,358
taxa
42,533
species
650
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 10,868,179
22.1%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 11,682,897 5,335
23.8%
decimalLatitude 212,469
0.4%
decimalLongitude 212,775 13
0.4%
eventDate 724,351 21,154
1.5%
maximumDepthInMeters 14,767,868
30.0%
minimumDepthInMeters 14,835,107
30.2%
occurrenceStatus 26,385 1,935
0.1%
scientificName 7,377
0.0%
scientificNameID 15,127,902 25,280
30.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 14,759,743
30.0%
NO_MATCH 4,979,917
10.1%
ON_LAND 3,918,000
8.0%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 685,238
1.4%
MARINE_UNSURE 437,835
0.9%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 405,264
0.8%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 379,160
0.8%
NOT_MARINE 231,361
0.5%
NO_COORD 212,899
0.4%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 39,321
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_AMBIGUOUS 11,636
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_HABITAT 7,195
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE_LOSS 6,172
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_NO_BIOTA 5,125
0.0%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_REJECT_GROUPING 74
0.0%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 53
0.0%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 52
0.0%
LON_OUT_OF_RANGE 13
0.0%
ZERO_COORD 1
0.0%