OBIS Seamap
by Jens on Aug.23, 2010, under Marine Life, Online Data Sources
OBIS (Ocean Biogeographic Information System), originally established under Census of Marine Life is animpressive alliance of people working to make biogeographic data available. As a whole, they now hold well over 27 million records and 849 data sets, which are accessible through the portal.
However, I thought I’d like to highlight a particular aspect – the OBIS Seamap. It includes observations on marine mammals, seabirds and sea turtles, as well as accessing environmental variables. In addition, there are links to a wide range of tools and additional databases ranging from photographic fin matching to sea turtle nesting sites.
However, it is the functionality of this site that is really impressive. Beyond the ability to search through over 2 million observations by data set, species, locations etc etc. you are also able to extract all the relevant information directly to freely available mapping tools such as google earth (export a kml file to work on, based on your search results) as well as OGC compliant formats for web mapping or file services. Altogether, the strong presentation of data sets combined with a well laid out and thought out set of functionalities demonstrates a very competent site, which will hopefully serve as inspiration to others looking to publish large volumes of marine data online.
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