Seal Counts
Northeast Fisheries Science Center
Data Set
(DS)
| ID: 23063
| Published / External
Created: 2015-01-30
|
Last Modified: 2023-06-01
Parent: Survey Data
Project (PRJ) | ID: 23294
Project (PRJ) | ID: 23294
ID: 23063
Data Set (DS)
* Discovery• First Pass
» Metadata Rubric
Item Identification
| * » Title | Seal Counts |
|---|---|
| Short Name | Seal Counts |
| * Status | Completed |
| Creation Date | |
| Revision Date | |
| • Publication Date | |
| * » Abstract |
Database of seal counts from aerial photography. Counts by image, site, species, and date are stored in the database along with information on entanglements and other human interactions. |
| * Purpose |
Seal haulout sites are photographed and images archived and analyzed for information on abundance, pupping, human interaction and habitat use. |
| Notes | |
| Other Citation Details | |
| • Supplemental Information | |
| DOI (Digital Object Identifier) | |
| DOI Registration Authority | |
| DOI Issue Date |
Keywords
Theme Keywords
| Thesaurus | Keyword |
|---|---|
| None | abundance |
| None | aerial survey |
| None | distribution |
| None | gray seal |
| None | Halichoerus grypus |
| None | harbor seal |
| None | haulout |
| None | Phoca vitulina |
Temporal Keywords
| Thesaurus | Keyword |
|---|---|
* Spatial Keywords
| Thesaurus | Keyword |
|---|---|
Stratum Keywords
| Thesaurus | Keyword |
|---|---|
Instrument Keywords
| Thesaurus | Keyword |
|---|---|
Platform Keywords
| Thesaurus | Keyword |
|---|---|
Physical Location
| • » Organization | Northeast Fisheries Science Center |
|---|---|
| • » City | Woods Hole |
| • » State/Province | MA |
| • Country | USA |
| • » Location Description |
Data Set Information
| * Data Set Scope Code | Data Set |
|---|---|
| • Data Set Type | Oracle Database |
| • Maintenance Frequency | As Needed |
| Maintenance Note | |
| » Data Presentation Form | Table (digital) |
| • Entity Attribute Overview | |
| Entity Attribute Detail Citation | |
| Entity Attribute Detail URL | |
| Distribution Liability | |
| Data Set Credit |
Support Roles
» At least one Distributor Org, one Metadata Contact, one Point of Contact, and one Data Steward should be listed.
| * » Support Role | Data Steward |
|---|---|
| * » Date Effective From | 2013 |
| Date Effective To | |
| Person | Josephson, Elizabeth |
| Address |
166 Water Street Woods Hole, MA 02543-1026 USA |
| Email Address | elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov |
| Phone | 508-495-2362 |
| Fax | |
| Mobile | |
| URL | |
| Business Hours | |
| Contact Instructions |
elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov |
| * » Support Role | Distributor |
|---|---|
| * » Date Effective From | 2014 |
| Date Effective To | |
| Person | Josephson, Elizabeth |
| Address |
166 Water Street Woods Hole, MA 02543-1026 USA |
| Email Address | elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov |
| Phone | 508-495-2362 |
| Fax | |
| Mobile | |
| URL | |
| Business Hours | |
| Contact Instructions |
|
| * » Support Role | Metadata Contact |
|---|---|
| * » Date Effective From | 2014 |
| Date Effective To | |
| Person | Josephson, Elizabeth |
| Address |
166 Water Street Woods Hole, MA 02543-1026 USA |
| Email Address | elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov |
| Phone | 508-495-2362 |
| Fax | |
| Mobile | |
| URL | |
| Business Hours | |
| Contact Instructions |
|
| * » Support Role | Point of Contact |
|---|---|
| * » Date Effective From | 2013 |
| Date Effective To | |
| Person | Josephson, Elizabeth |
| Address |
166 Water Street Woods Hole, MA 02543-1026 USA |
| Email Address | elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov |
| Phone | 508-495-2362 |
| Fax | |
| Mobile | |
| URL | |
| Business Hours | |
| Contact Instructions |
elizabeth.josephson@noaa.gov |
| * » Support Role | |
|---|---|
| * » Date Effective From | |
| Date Effective To | |
| * » Contact | |
| * Contact Instructions |
| * » Support Role | |
|---|---|
| * » Date Effective From | |
| Date Effective To | |
| * » Contact | |
| * Contact Instructions |
| * » Support Role | |
|---|---|
| * » Date Effective From | |
| Date Effective To | |
| * » Contact | |
| * Contact Instructions |
Extents
| Currentness Reference | Ground Condition |
|---|
Extent Group 1
| Extent Description |
|---|
Extent Group 1 / Geographic Area 1
| * » W° Bound | -70.95 |
|---|---|
| * » E° Bound | -66.7 |
| * » N° Bound | 44.8 |
| * » S° Bound | 41.248 |
| * » Description |
Extent Group 1 / Vertical Extent
| EPSG Code | |
|---|---|
| Vertical Minimum | |
| Vertical Maximum |
Extent Group 1 / Time Frame 1
| * » Time Frame Type | Continuing |
|---|---|
| * » Start | 2005-02-06 |
| End | |
| Alternate Start As Of Info | |
| Alternate End As Of Info | |
| Description |
Spatial Information
Spatial Resolution
| Angular Distance | |
|---|---|
| Angular Distance Units | |
| Horizontal Distance | |
| Horizontal Distance Units | |
| Vertical Distance | |
| Vertical Distance Units | |
| Equivalent Scale Denominator | |
| Level of Detail Description |
|
Spatial Representation
| Grid Representation Used? | |
|---|---|
| Vector Representation Used? | |
| Text / Table Representation Used? | |
| TIN Representation Used? | |
| Stereo Model Representation Used? | |
| Video Representation Used? |
Grid Representation
| Dimension Count | |||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Cell Geometry | |||||||||||||
| Transformation Parameter Available? | |||||||||||||
Axis Dimension |
|||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
Axis Dimension |
|||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||
Vector Representation
| Topology Level | |
|---|---|
| Complex Object Present? | |
| Complex Object Count | |
| Composite Object Present? | |
| Composite Object Count | |
| Curve Object Present? | |
| Curve Object Count | |
| Point Object Present? | |
| Point Object Count | |
| Solid Object Present? | |
| Solid Object Count | |
| Surface Object Present? | |
| Surface Object Count |
Reference Systems
Reference System
| EPSG Code | |||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
Horizontal Resolution |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Vertical Resolution |
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
|
|||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Access Information
| Data License | |
|---|---|
| Data License URL | |
| Data License Statement | |
| * » Security Class | Unclassified |
| * Security Classification System | |
| Security Handling Description | |
| • Data Access Policy |
Available to qualified researchers |
| » Data Access Procedure |
Please contact data steward via email |
| • » Data Access Constraints |
Data is stored on an internal NEFSC network, the requester may not have direct access to query the data unless they are also authorized for network access. |
| • Data Use Constraints |
User must read and fully comprehend the metadata prior to use. Applications or inferences derived from the data should be carefully considered for accuracy. Acknowledgement of NOAA/NMFS/NEFSC as the source from which these data were obtained in any publications and/or other representations of these data is suggested. |
| Metadata Access Constraints | |
| Metadata Use Constraints |
Distribution Information
| Start Date | |
|---|---|
| » Download URL | https://storage.googleapis.com/nmfs_odp_nefsc/PARR/READ/PSB/23063/23063_SealCounts_Data.zip |
| Distributor | |
| File Name | 23063_SealCounts_Data.zip |
| Description |
Compressed Zipped Folder: 23063_SealCounts_Data (data is current as of 6/7/2017) |
| File Date/Time | |
| File Type (Deprecated) | |
| Distribution Format | |
| File Size | |
| Application Version | |
| Compression | |
| Review Status |
| Start Date | |
|---|---|
| End Date | |
| » Download URL | |
| Distributor | |
| File Name | |
| Description | |
| File Date/Time | |
| File Type | |
| FGDC Content Type | |
| File Size | |
| Application Version | |
| Compression | |
| Review Status |
| Start Date | |
|---|---|
| End Date | |
| » Download URL | |
| Distributor | |
| File Name | |
| Description | |
| File Date/Time | |
| File Type | |
| FGDC Content Type | |
| File Size | |
| Application Version | |
| Compression | |
| Review Status |
| Start Date | |
|---|---|
| End Date | |
| » Download URL | |
| Distributor | |
| File Name | |
| Description | |
| File Date/Time | |
| File Type | |
| FGDC Content Type | |
| File Size | |
| Application Version | |
| Compression | |
| Review Status |
Archive Information
| Location | |
|---|---|
| File Identifier | |
| File Name | |
| URL | |
| Description | |
| DOI | |
| Archive Date | |
| Archive Update Frequency |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| File Identifier | |
| File Name | |
| URL | |
| Description | |
| DOI | |
| Archive Date | |
| Archive Update Frequency |
| Location | |
|---|---|
| File Identifier | |
| File Name | |
| URL | |
| Description | |
| DOI | |
| Archive Date | |
| Archive Update Frequency |
URLs
| URL | |
|---|---|
| Name | |
| URL Type | |
| File Resource Format | |
| Description |
| URL | |
|---|---|
| Name | |
| URL Type | |
| File Resource Format | |
| Description |
| URL | |
|---|---|
| Name | |
| URL Type | |
| File Resource Format | |
| Description |
Activity Log
| Activity Time | |
|---|---|
| Activity Type | |
| Responsible Party | |
| Description |
| Activity Time | |
|---|---|
| Activity Type | |
| Responsible Party | |
| Description |
| Activity Time | |
|---|---|
| Activity Type | |
| Responsible Party | |
| Description |
Issues
| Issue Date | |
|---|---|
| Author | |
| Issue |
| Issue Date | |
|---|---|
| Author | |
| Issue |
| Issue Date | |
|---|---|
| Author | |
| Issue |
Technical Environment
| Description |
|
|---|
Data Quality
| Representativeness | |
|---|---|
| Accuracy | |
| Analytical Accuracy | |
| Horizontal Positional Accuracy | |
| Vertical Positional Accuracy | |
| Quantitation Limits | |
| Bias | |
| Comparability | |
| Completeness Measure | |
| Precision | |
| Analytical Precision | |
| Field Precision | |
| Sensitivity | |
| Detection Limit | |
| Completeness Report | |
| Conceptual Consistency | |
| » Quality Control Procedures Employed |
A percentage of images are counted by at least two independent counters. Data visually inspected for outliers. |
Data Management
| » Have Resources for Management of these Data Been Identified? | Yes |
|---|---|
| » Approximate Percentage of Budget for these Data Devoted to Data Management | Unknown |
| » Do these Data Comply with the Data Access Directive? | Yes |
| » Is Access to the Data Limited Based on an Approved Waiver? | No |
| » If Distributor (Data Hosting Service) is Needed, Please Indicate | |
| » Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Dissemination | < 1 year |
| » If Delay is Longer than Latency of Automated Processing, Indicate Under What Authority Data Access is Delayed | |
| » Actual or Planned Long-Term Data Archive Location | No Archiving Intended |
| » If To Be Determined, Unable to Archive, or No Archiving Intended, Explain |
Local archiving sufficient. |
| » Approximate Delay Between Data Collection and Archiving | < 1year |
| » How Will the Data Be Protected from Accidental or Malicious Modification or Deletion Prior to Receipt by the Archive? |
Data are in Oracle on NEFSC servers and undergo regular backups |
Lineage
| » Lineage Statement |
Counts of seals in aerial imagery are entered directly into Oracle database or collected in excel spreadsheets and uploaded into database. |
|---|
Sources
| Citation Title | |
|---|---|
| Contact Role Type | |
| Contact Type | |
| Contact Name | |
| Publish Date | |
| Extent Type | |
| Extent Start Date/Time | |
| Extent End Date/Time | |
| Citation URL | |
| Citation URL Name | |
| Citation URL Description | |
| Scale Denominator |
| Citation Title | |
|---|---|
| Contact Role Type | |
| Contact Type | |
| Contact Name | |
| Publish Date | |
| Extent Type | |
| Extent Start Date/Time | |
| Extent End Date/Time | |
| Citation URL | |
| Citation URL Name | |
| Citation URL Description | |
| Scale Denominator |
| Citation Title | |
|---|---|
| Contact Role Type | |
| Contact Type | |
| Contact Name | |
| Publish Date | |
| Extent Type | |
| Extent Start Date/Time | |
| Extent End Date/Time | |
| Citation URL | |
| Citation URL Name | |
| Citation URL Description | |
| Scale Denominator |
Process Steps
| Process Step Number | |
|---|---|
| » Description | |
| Process Date/Time | |
| Process Contact | |
| Phone (Voice) | |
| Email Address | |
| Source |
| Process Step Number | |
|---|---|
| » Description | |
| Process Date/Time | |
| Process Contact | |
| Phone (Voice) | |
| Email Address | |
| Source |
| Process Step Number | |
|---|---|
| » Description | |
| Process Date/Time | |
| Process Contact | |
| Phone (Voice) | |
| Email Address | |
| Source |
Acquisition Information
Instruments
| Instrument Unavailable Reason |
|---|
| Identifier | |
|---|---|
| Docucomp UUID | |
| Instrument / Gear | |
| Instrument Type | |
| Description |
| Identifier | |
|---|---|
| Docucomp UUID | |
| Instrument / Gear | |
| Instrument Type | |
| Description |
| Identifier | |
|---|---|
| Docucomp UUID | |
| Instrument / Gear | |
| Instrument Type | |
| Description |
Platforms
| Platform Unavailable Reason |
|---|
| Identifier | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docucomp UUID | |||||||
| Description | |||||||
Mounted Instruments |
|||||||
|
|||||||
| Identifier | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docucomp UUID | |||||||
| Description | |||||||
Mounted Instruments |
|||||||
|
|||||||
| Identifier | |||||||
|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|---|
| Docucomp UUID | |||||||
| Description | |||||||
Mounted Instruments |
|||||||
|
|||||||
FAQs
| Date | |
|---|---|
| Author | |
| Question | |
| Answer |
Child Items
Rubric scores updated every 15m
| Score | Type | Title |
|---|---|---|
| Entity (ENT) | Table: HAULOUTS | |
| Entity (ENT) | Table: HGPUPCOUNTS | |
| Entity (ENT) | Table: PVSURVEY2012 | |
| Entity (ENT) | Table: SEALCOUNTERS | |
| Entity (ENT) | Table: SEALCOUNTS | |
Related Items
| Item Type | Relationship Type | Title |
|---|---|---|
Catalog Details
| Catalog Item ID | 23063 |
|---|---|
| Metadata Record Created By | Elizabeth Josephson |
| Metadata Record Created | 2015-01-30 08:38+0000 |
| Metadata Record Last Modified By | Elizabeth Josephson |
| » Metadata Record Last Modified | 2023-06-01 20:14+0000 |
| Metadata Record Published | 2016-07-27 |
| Owner Org | NEFSC |
| Metadata Publication Status | Published Externally |
| Do Not Publish? | N |
| Metadata Workflow State | Published / External |
| Metadata Last Review Date | 2016-07-27 |
| Metadata Review Frequency | 1 Year |
| Metadata Next Review Date | 2017-07-27 |
| Tags |
|---|