Published March 18, 2020 | Version v1
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Filtered Data from the Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data Project from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

Creators

  • 1. Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, Station d'Écologie de Chizé-Université de La Rochelle
  • 2. OD Nature, Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences
  • 3. Alfred-Wegener-Institut Helmholtz-Zentrum für Polar- und Meeresforschung
  • 4. Sorbonne Universités, UPMC University, Paris 06
  • 5. Department of Ecology and Evolutionary Biology, University of California Santa Cruz
  • 6. Université Libre de Bruxelles, Marine Biology Lab
  • 7. Department of Biological Sciences, Macquarie University
  • 8. Institute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
  • 9. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research Ltd
  • 10. Hatfield Marine Science Center
  • 11. British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council
  • 12. H.T. Harvey & Associates
  • 13. Department of Primary Industries, Parks, Water and Environment,
  • 14. nstitute for Marine and Antarctic Studies, University of Tasmania
  • 15. Point Blue Conservation Science
  • 16. Marine Mammal Laboratory, Alaska Fisheries Science Center/NOAA
  • 17. Mammal Research Institute, Department of Zoology and Entomology, University of Pretoria
  • 18. UiT The Arctic University of Norway
  • 19. Scottish Oceans Institute
  • 20. Centre d'Etudes Biologiques de Chizé, Station d'Écologie de Chizé- La Rochelle Université
  • 21. School of Biological Sciences, University of Auckland
  • 22. Oceans and Coasts, Department of Environmental Affairs
  • 23. Instituto de Oceanografia, Universidade Federal do Rio Grande - FURG
  • 24. Norwegian Polar Institute
  • 25. Australian Antarctic Division, Department of the Environment and Energy
  • 26. Institute of Marine Sciences, University of California Santa
  • 27. Antarctic Ecosystem Research Division, Southwest Fisheries Science Center, National Marine Fisheries
  • 28. National Institute of Water and Atmospheric Research
  • 29. South Australian Research and Development Institute,
  • 30. Center for Marine Biology & Biomedicine, Scripps Institution of Oceanography
  • 31. Landcare Research
  • 32. Instituto Antártico Argentino
  • 33. Moss Landing Marine Laboratories, San José State University
  • 34. Institute for Terrestrial and Aquatic Wildlife Research, University of Veterinary Medicine Hannover
  • 35. British Antarctic Survey, Natural Environment Research Council,
  • 36. Dipartimento di Scienze Fisiche, della Terra e dell'Ambiente, Università di Siena
  • 37. DST-NRF Centre of Excellence at the Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, Nelson Mandela University
  • 38. Antarctic Research Trust
  • 39. Percy FitzPatrick Institute of African Ornithology, DST-NRF Centre of Excellence, University of Cape Town
  • 40. National Institute of Polar Research
  • 41. Institute of Biodiversity Animal Health and Comparative Medicine, University of Glasgow
  • 42. Marine and Environmental Sciences Centre, Department of Life Sciences, University of Coimbra

Description

The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data (RAATD) is a Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) project led jointly by the Expert Groups on Birds and Marine Mammals and Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics, and endorsed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. The RAATD project team consolidated tracking data for multiple species of Antarctic meso- and top-predators to identify Areas of Ecological Significance. These datasets constitute the compiled tracking data from a large number of research groups that have worked in the Antarctic since the 1990s.

This metadata record pertains to the "filtered" version of the data files. These files contain position estimates that have been processed using a state-space model in order to estimate locations at regular time intervals. For technical details of the filtering process, consult the data paper. The filtering code can be found in the https://github.com/SCAR/RAATD repository.

This data set comprises one metadata csv file that describes all deployments, along with data files (3 files for each of 17 species). For each species there is:
- an RDS file that contains the fitted TMB filter model object and model predictions (this file is RDS format that can be read by the R statistical software package)
- a PDF file that shows the quality control results for each individual model
- a CSV file containing the interpolated position estimates

For details of the file contents and formats, consult the data paper.

The original copy of these data are available through the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018_Filtered)


The data are also available in a standardized version (see https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018_Standardised) that contain position estimates as provided by the original data collectors (generally, raw Argos or GPS locations, or estimated GLS locations) without state-space filtering.

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