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Title: Cook Inlet Beluga Sightings Table
Short Name: Cook Inlet Beluga Sightings Table
Status: In Work
Notes:

Loaded by FGDC Metadata Uploader, batch 6775, 08-10-2015 16:40

Entity Information

Entity Type: Data File
Description:

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Data Attributes

Note: Metadata requirements do not apply to attributes for non-tabular entities.

Attribute Summary

Rubric Score Primary Key? Name Type Description
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Cook Inlet Sighting Number ID NUMBER Sequence number of Cook Inlet beluga sighting in database
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Year NUMBER Year sighting occurred
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Month NUMBER Month sighting occurred
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Day NUMBER Day sighting occurred
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Lat degrees NUMBER Latitude degrees
N/A
Lat decimal minutes NUMBER Latitude decimal minutes
N/A
Lat decimal degrees NUMBER Latitude in decimal degrees
N/A
Long degrees NUMBER Longitude degrees
N/A
Long decimal minutes NUMBER Longitude decimal minutes
N/A
Long decimal degrees NUMBER Longitude in decimal degrees
N/A
Data type Unknown Type of data associated with sighting
N/A
Source Unknown Type of source giving sighting informaion
N/A
Specific Locality Unknown Description of area or region of sighting
N/A
Error Range (in km) NUMBER Precision in sighting range: 0.1=GPS above group, 0.2=GPS near group, 0.3=approx lat/long, 0.5=location description, 10.0=generalized location
N/A
Estimated position? Unknown Was position estimated from specific locality?
N/A
Group Size NUMBER Group size is number of individuals in group sighted
N/A
Time Unknown time of day sighting occurred
N/A
Sighting Platform Unknown platform sighting occurred
N/A
Observer Type Unknown Type of person reporting sighting: Observer=trained observer, Volunteer=has some training, Public=person from the public sector, training unknown
N/A
Reliability of Sighting Unknown Yes=trained observer or volunteer; Unsure=unknown if person has training to recognize beluga; No= questionable quality of sighting data
N/A
Behavior Unknown Description of behavior during sighting
N/A
Comment Unknown Additional information

Attribute Details

Cook Inlet Sighting Number ID

CC ID: 275048
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Sequence number of Cook Inlet beluga sighting in database

Allowed Values: 1 - 2145

Year

CC ID: 275049
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Year sighting occurred

Allowed Values: 1975 - 2015

Month

CC ID: 275050
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Month sighting occurred

Allowed Values: 0 - 12

Day

CC ID: 275051
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Day sighting occurred

Allowed Values: 0 - 31

Lat degrees

CC ID: 275052
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Latitude degrees

Allowed Values: 0 - 61

Lat decimal minutes

CC ID: 275053
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Latitude decimal minutes

Allowed Values: 0 - 59.89

Lat decimal degrees

CC ID: 275054
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Latitude in decimal degrees

Allowed Values: 59.0708333333333 - 61.5237

Long degrees

CC ID: 275055
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Longitude degrees

Allowed Values: -150 - 154

Long decimal minutes

CC ID: 275056
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Longitude decimal minutes

Allowed Values: 0 - 74.18

Long decimal degrees

CC ID: 275057
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Longitude in decimal degrees

Allowed Values: -154.17066 - -140.680833333333

Data type

CC ID: 275058
Data Storage Type: Unknown
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Type of data associated with sighting

Allowed Values: unknown

Source

CC ID: 275059
Data Storage Type: Unknown
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Type of source giving sighting informaion

Allowed Values: unknown

Specific Locality

CC ID: 275060
Data Storage Type: Unknown
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Description of area or region of sighting

Allowed Values: unknown

Error Range (in km)

CC ID: 275061
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Precision in sighting range: 0.1=GPS above group, 0.2=GPS near group, 0.3=approx lat/long, 0.5=location description, 10.0=generalized location

Allowed Values: 0 - 10

Estimated position?

CC ID: 275062
Data Storage Type: Unknown
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Was position estimated from specific locality?

Allowed Values: unknown

Group Size

CC ID: 275063
Data Storage Type: NUMBER
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Group size is number of individuals in group sighted

Allowed Values: 1 - 1500

Time

CC ID: 275064
Data Storage Type: Unknown
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

time of day sighting occurred

Allowed Values: unknown

Sighting Platform

CC ID: 275065
Data Storage Type: Unknown
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

platform sighting occurred

Allowed Values: unknown

Observer Type

CC ID: 275066
Data Storage Type: Unknown
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Type of person reporting sighting: Observer=trained observer, Volunteer=has some training, Public=person from the public sector, training unknown

Allowed Values: unknown

Reliability of Sighting

CC ID: 275067
Data Storage Type: Unknown
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Yes=trained observer or volunteer; Unsure=unknown if person has training to recognize beluga; No= questionable quality of sighting data

Allowed Values: unknown

Behavior

CC ID: 275068
Data Storage Type: Unknown
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Description of behavior during sighting

Allowed Values: unknown

Comment

CC ID: 275069
Data Storage Type: Unknown
Required: No
Primary Key: No
Status: Active
Description:

Additional information

Allowed Values: unknown

Catalog Details

Catalog Item ID: 26322
GUID: gov.noaa.nmfs.inport:26322
Metadata Record Created By: Janice Waite
Metadata Record Created: 2015-08-10 16:40+0000
Metadata Record Last Modified By: SysAdmin InPortAdmin
Metadata Record Last Modified: 2022-08-09 17:11+0000
Metadata Record Published: 2018-11-27
Owner Org: AFSC
Metadata Publication Status: Published Externally
Do Not Publish?: N
Metadata Last Review Date: 2018-11-27
Metadata Review Frequency: 1 Year
Metadata Next Review Date: 2019-11-27