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

61,429,379
occurrence records
101,577
taxa
81,194
species
517
datasets

Datasets

Missing and invalid fields

Field Missing Invalid
basisOfRecord 1,266
0.0%
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters 18,989,419 646
30.9%
decimalLatitude 808,715 150
1.3%
decimalLongitude 808,695 157
1.3%
eventDate 710,467 490,890
2.0%
individualCount 15,990
0.0%
maximumDepthInMeters 8,607,762 641,365
15.1%
minimumDepthInMeters 8,465,584 632,068
14.8%
occurrenceStatus 2,471,783 1,495,509
6.5%
scientificName 60,264
0.1%
scientificNameID 3,572,219 608,250
6.8%

Quality flags

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

Flag Dropped Records
NO_DEPTH 9,092,320
14.8%
DEPTH_EXCEEDS_BATH 4,363,901
7.1%
ON_LAND 4,193,424
6.8%
NO_ACCEPTED_NAME 900,085
1.5%
NO_COORD 808,919
1.3%
NOT_MARINE 715,947
1.2%
NO_MATCH 438,531
0.7%
SCIENTIFICNAMEID_EXTERNAL 83,112
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_UNRESOLVABLE 44,690
0.1%
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX 44,095
0.1%
MARINE_UNSURE 40,468
0.1%
WORMS_ANNOTATION_RESOLVABLE 22,035
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%