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Tracking_DD

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Citation
Kerry, K. and Southwell, C. (1999) Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins in the Dumont Durville Area, Antarctica, Ver. 1, Australian Antarctic Data Centre - https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/Tracking_DD, Accessed: 2026-05-25
Title
Satellite Tracking of Adelie Penguins in the Dumont Durville Area, Antarctica
Data Centre
Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia
Created Date
1999-10-06
Revision Date
2019-08-16
Expected Date of Data Release
1999-10-07
Data Version
1
Parent record
satellite_tracking_adelie

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    Description

    This dataset contains the results from satellite tracking the movements of Adélie Penguins (Pygoscelis adeliae) in the Dumont D'urville region, Antarctica. By the use of satellite fixes the foraging locations of the penguins were determined. Monitoring occurred during the 1995-1996 summer season.

    This work was compeleted as part of ASAC project 2205 (ASAC_2205), &Adélie penguin research and monitoring in support of the CCAMLR Ecosystem Monitoring Project&.

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    Quality

    See the quality flags associated with each PTT device. Quality flags can be interpreted as follows:

    0 - greater than 1000 metres
    1 - less than 1000 metres
    2 - less than 350 metres
    3 - less than 150 metres
    A - 3 message location
    B - 2 message location
    Z - unvalidated location

    See the ARGOS website for further information.

    Access

    These data are publicly available via a database maintained by the Australian Antarctic Data Centre (AADC) at the provided URL.

    For assistance extracting data from the datbase, please contact the AADC.

    Temporal Coverages

    Spatial Coverages

    Latitude

    Northernmost:
    -64
    Southernmost:
    -67

    Longitude

    Westernmost:
    136
    Easternmost:
    144

    Science Keywords

    Additional Keywords

      None

    Locations

    • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
    • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > DUMONT D'URVILLE
    • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR

    Platforms

    • SATELLITES

    Instruments

    • ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System

    Researchers

    • kerry, knowles (INVESTIGATOR,DIF AUTHOR)
    • southwell, colin (INVESTIGATOR,TECHNICAL CONTACT)

    Use Constraints

    This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License
    (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/).

    Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=Tracking_DD when using these data.

    Project

      ISO Topic

      • OCEANS
      • BIOTA

      Dataset Language

      • English

      Orignating Centre

      • Australian Antarctic Division

      Dataset Progress

      • COMPLETE

      IDN Node

      • AMD/AU
      • CEOS
      • AMD

      Metadata Revision History

        2019-08-16 - record updated by Dave Connell - basic updates.

      Creative Commons License