A geographic information system of Sea Lion Island, Falkland Islands, Falkland Islands (1995-2019)

The goal of the project is to create a geographic information system to provide a centralized storage for ppatially referenced data collected at Sea Lion Island, that will include marine mammals (pinnipeds and cetaceans), bird species, topography (e.g,, beach profiles) and landscape imagery (e.g., drone images). Information from other sources will be adde, in particular data and maps collected during spot surveys carried out in the past, that have been recovered from various sources. These data include general surveys of plants and birds, surveys of single species (e.g., caracara), and opportunistic counts and observations of sea lions, seals, and cetaceans. Further information is available on the research group website, www.eleseal.org.

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Field	Value
Last Updated	December 14, 2020, 09:55 (PST)
Created	January 30, 2020, 05:23 (PST)
Region	Falkland Islands
Language	eng
Topic Category	Biota; flora and/or fauna in natural environment
Temporal Extent Start	2017-01-01
Temporal Extent End	2019-12-31
Dataset Reference Date	2019
Lineage	At Sea Lion Island, spatially referenced data using various devices, with variable level of accuracy, have been collected since 1995 and includes: 1) navigation grade GPS receivers (Garmin GPSMap); 2) survey grade GPS receivers (Magellan ProMark3); 3) high precision laser telemetry systems (Leica Laser Locator, Disto S910); 4) navigation grade GPS loggers (Canmore); 5) semi-professional UAVs (Phantom III and Mavic, DJI). All these instruments produce data which are downloaded using different protocols and saved in different formant. However, all data are processed using customs script and converted in a common CSV format. From CSV file, shapefiles are routinely generated and then imported as layers of a single QGIS project. Data quality control and checking is done first on the original CSV file, and then again on the shapefiles imported in QGIS. We are currently considering the migration of the system form individual shapefiles to SpatiaLite database.
West Longitude	-59.1519
South Latitude	-52.4486
East Longitude	-59.0364
North Latitude	-52.4205
Spatial Reference System	WGS84
Responsible Organisation Name	Hidden (personal data protection)
Contact Mail Address	Hidden (personal data protection)
Responsible Party Role	Hidden (personal data protection)
Access Limitations	Restricted, send data request to data owner
Use Constraints	Restricted, but open subject to limitations and prior agreement with responsible organisation. Copyright must be cited
Resource Reference	Copyright ESRG 1995-present - All Rights Reserved. Please contact ESRG before citing unpublished reports.
Data Format	postgres, shape
Update Frequency	annually
Accuracy	Accuracy of mapping by navigation grade GPS is 5 metres. accuracy of mapping by survey grade GPS receivers is submetric to decimetric. accuracy of mapping by laser telemetry (Leica Laser Locator and Leica Disto S910) is between 0.5 and 1 meter. Tracing of spatial features is carried out in QGIS using high resolution satellite imagery as reference layer.
Resource Type	Database
Original Title	Hidden (internal use only)
Metadata Date	2019-04-03
Metadata Point of Contact	datamanager@saeri.ac.fk
Contact Consent	Contact details hidden
Unique Resource ID	FK-ESRG-388

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