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ARGOS Satellite tracking

Programs

A repository of all ARGOS satellite messages from 1982 to present. Trackers have been used on Automatic Weather Stations, buoys and numerous species of whales, seals and birds.
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Programs

Programs


List of Programs - Blue timestamps indicate active programs (ie data within the last 5 days).

Program active from/to is the date range of known data in the database.

Program Number PurposePass count Program active from/toProfiles
89 Sea ice buoys (IAOC) 92,166 3-Jan-1984 30-Nov-1993 12 Profiles
90 19,472 4-Jan-1982 3-May-1984
366 AWS (Ian Allison) 2,738,419 7-Sep-1984 5-Nov-2007 7 Profiles
539 36,517 3-Feb-1986 30-Nov-1993 1 Profiles
667 Elephant and Weddell data (H Burton) 14,538 30-Sep-1987 3-May-2004 74 Profiles
857 818 19-Nov-1991 3-Nov-1994 4 Profiles
973 CEMP - Southwell 128,688 14-Oct-1991 21-Jun-2005 752 Profiles
1064 Unknown user or purpose 741 2-Jan-1992 4-Oct-1995 5 Profiles
1089 5,593 7-Jan-1986 31-Mar-1987 1 Profiles
1137 1,118 3-Nov-1993 15-Dec-1993 3 Profiles
1155 Drifting buoys (IAOC) 363,096 5-Oct-1992 5-Nov-2007 110 Profiles
1173 Albtaross tracking from Macquarie Island 1992 1,070 10-Nov-1992 18-May-1995 5 Profiles
1179 Albatross (Graham Robertson) 115,010 16-Nov-1992 27-Oct-2007 527 Profiles
1185 1,581 1-Feb-1993 4-Sep-1994 4 Profiles
1366 352,336 16-Nov-2004 5-Nov-2007
1384 Mark Hindell (UTAS) - most deployments from Macquarie Island 10,478 16-Aug-1994 31-Jan-2000 18 Profiles
1395 APIS seal tracks (Colin Southwell) - some links to adelies which need sorting 18,854 24-Aug-1994 7-Jun-2004 38 Profiles
1516 Data from Dumont 1995/96 in conjunction with BROKE 2,502 30-Oct-1995 2-Aug-1996 19 Profiles
1527 Simon Goldsworthy - Heard and Kangaroo Islands 4,466 29-May-2000 6-Mar-2001 13 Profiles
1535 Elephant seals from Marion Island 25,687 5-Dec-2003 22-Oct-2004 17 Profiles
1795 Petrels - Ardery Island - Jeroen Creuwels 5,382 8-Jan-1999 31-Mar-1999 11 Profiles
1807 Albatrosses from Macca (DPWIE) 13,448 2-Nov-1998 26-Jan-2003 19 Profiles
1811 Unknown - tracker located in USA 144 5-Dec-1997 19-Aug-2002
1835 2,378 16-Jan-1998 15-Oct-2003
2006 Little Blue Penguins - Phillip Island (2001) - John Kirkwood 12,691 4-Jul-2001 31-Jan-2002 13 Profiles
2089 3,110 24-Aug-1986 23-Jan-1987
2440 Whales (Nick Gales) 192,567 10-Oct-2001 4-Nov-2007 364 Profiles
9173 7,416 25-Sep-1993 1-Nov-1997 28 Profiles
9986 6 12-Jun-2004 14-Oct-2004
12440 Gales - domestic whales ? 297 16-Mar-2006 9-May-2007 1 Profiles