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PGS biota data - mammal and turtle observations - aggregated
Citation
Viana L, Whaley M (2026). PGS biota data - mammal and turtle observations - aggregated. Version 1.4. HUB Ocean. Occurrence dataset. https://ipt.gbif.no/resource?r=pgs-mammals-turtles-observations&v=1.4 https://doi.org/10.15468/yaq22t

Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution-NonCommercial 4.0 International License.

Description
PGS vessels have continuous observation for mammal and turtle sightings, this can be a combination of visual inspection and acoustic sensors. The data provides details for the sightings under numerous projects offshore Brazil. This dataset is the result of processing input data from multiple projects and ensuring the data are consistently formatted and aggregated into a single common format. The original files can be found on the Ocean Data Platform.

Lineage
Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Mammals, Biology > Reptiles
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal · Bio-geographical regions · Biota · Brazil · Environment · Geoscientific Information · Habitats and biotopes · Industry · Mammals · Metadata non conformant · Metadata not evaluated · No limitations to public access · Occurrence · Oceans · Sea regions · WGS84 (EPSG:4326) · Whales · XYZ ASCII · EurOBIS calculated BBOX · Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone

Geographical coverage
EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations
Bounding Box
Coordinates: MinLong: -47,2271; MinLat: -34,6103 - MaxLong: -33,7675; MaxLat: -1,8669 [WGS84]
Brazilian Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
15 October 2008 - 19 August 2023 (EurOBIS harvested data)
1 May 2018 - 30 November 2021

Parameters
Count (in assayed sample) of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)
Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] (EurOBIS harvested data)

Contributors
TGS-NOPEC Geophysical Company, moredata creator
HUB Ocean, moredata creator

Related datasets
Published in:
EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more


Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Monitoring: field survey
Release date: 2026-04-23
Metadatarecord created: 2026-05-05
Information last updated: 2026-07-10
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