Western Australian Humpback Whale Distribution (2013-2015)

Created 12/10/2024

Updated 12/10/2024

Draft map of Western Australian humpback relative distribution, based modelling of tagged animal data. The model produces a relative animal density in terms of total cumulative whale time spent in each grid cell of whales migrating in a specified direction. See the associated references for further details.

References

[1] Peel, D.,Patterson, T., Smith., J., Double, M., and How, J. (In prep). A Method for Satellite Tag Data Interpolation

[2] Peel, D., Smith, J.N., Erbe, C., Patterson, T., and Childerhouse, S. (2018). Quantification of risk from shipping to large marine fauna across Australia. Report to the National Environmental Science Programme, Marine Biodiversity Hub. CSIRO. 211pp.

Note that this dataset was collected as part of the following project: NESP MB PROJECT C5 – QUANTIFICATION OF RISK FROM SHIPPING TO LARGE MARINE FAUNA ACROSS AUSTRALIA https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/metadata.show?uuid=5fb8766b-b3cb-4fd0-aad7-7dfcda6582a9

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Field Value
Title Western Australian Humpback Whale Distribution (2013-2015)
Language eng
Licence notspecified
Landing Page https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/5d69cebe-dc1a-4fe6-a9d5-3462616a93c1
Contact Point
Atlantic Oceanographic and Meteorological Laboratory (AOML)
Piers.Dunstan@csiro.au
Reference Period 05/08/2019
Geospatial Coverage {"type": "Polygon", "coordinates": [[[109.0, -38.4], [127.5, -38.4], [127.5, -10.9], [109.0, -10.9], [109.0, -38.4]]]}
Data Portal data.gov.au

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on data.gov.au "Western Australian Humpback Whale Distribution (2013-2015)". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://devweb.dga.links.com.au/data/dataset/western-australian-humpback-whale-distribution-2013-2015

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