Filtered Data from the Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data Project from the Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research

• Other Authors: ROPERT-COUDERT, YAN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), VAN DE PUTTE, ANTON PIETER (hasPrincipalInvestigator), VAN DE PUTTE, ANTON PIETER (processor), REISINGER, RYAN R. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), DANIS, BRUNO (hasPrincipalInvestigator), BORNEMANN, HORST (hasPrincipalInvestigator), COSTA, DANIEL P. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), CHARRASSIN, JEAN-BENOIT (hasPrincipalInvestigator), HUCKSTADT, LUIS A. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), JONSEN, IAN D. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), LEA, MARY-ANNE (hasPrincipalInvestigator), THOMPSON, DAVID (hasPrincipalInvestigator), TORRES, LEIGH (hasPrincipalInvestigator), TRATHAN, PHIL N (hasPrincipalInvestigator), WOTHERSPOON, SIMON (hasPrincipalInvestigator), RAYMOND, BEN (hasPrincipalInvestigator), RAYMOND, BEN (processor), HINDELL, MARK A. (hasPrincipalInvestigator), Sci Data (publisher)
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: Australian Antarctic Data Centre
• Subjects: biota; oceans; ANIMAL ECOLOGY AND BEHAVIOR; EARTH SCIENCE; AGRICULTURE; ANIMAL SCIENCE; ALBATROSSES/PETRELS AND ALLIES; BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION; ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES; BIRDS; PENGUINS; BALEEN WHALES; MAMMALS; CETACEANS; SEALS/SEA LIONS/WALRUSES; CARNIVORES; TRACKING; HABITAT USE; HOT SPOTS; BIOTELEMETRY; AREAS OF ECOLOGICAL SIGNIFICANCE; ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS; SEALS; GLOBAL LOCATION SENSOR; PLATFORM TERMINAL TRANSMITTERS; ARGOS > ARGOS Data Collection and Position Location System; SATELLITES; GPS > Global Positioning System Satellites; OCEAN > ATLANTIC OCEAN > SOUTH ATLANTIC OCEAN > BOUVET ISLAND; INDIAN OCEAN > CROZET ISLANDS; FALKLAND ISLANDS; SOUTHERN OCEAN > HEARD AND MCDONALD ISLANDS; KERGUELEN ISLANDS; MACQUARIE ISLAND; GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR; CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA > ROSS ISLAND; SOUTH GEORGIA ISLAND; SOUTH SHETLAND ISLANDS; MAWSON RESEARCH STATION; SCULLIN MONOLITH; SVARTHAMAREN; TERRE ADELIE; VESTFOLD HILLS; BECHERVAISE ISLAND; CAMPBELL ISLAND; COULMAN ISLAND; DRESCHER INLET; FILCHNER TROUGH; HUKURO COVE; ISLAS MALVINAS; MCMURDO SOUND; PETREL ISLAND; PRINCE EDWARD ISLANDS; SIGNY ISLAND; UFS ISLAND; Antarctic; Southern Ocean; The Antarctic; Kerguelen; South Shetland Islands; Vestfold Hills; McMurdo Sound; Kerguelen Islands; Ross Island; Indian; Vestfold; Heard; Signy Island; McDonald Islands; Bouvet; Filchner Trough; Bouvet Island; South Georgia Island; Campbell Island; Monolith; Svarthamaren; Coulman Island; Scullin Monolith; Ufs Island; Antarc*; Antarctica; baleen whales; Crozet Islands; Macquarie Island; Petrel Island; Prince Edward Islands; SCAR; Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research; South Atlantic Ocean; walrus*
• Online Access: https://researchdata.edu.au/filtered-retrospective-analysis-antarctic-research/1330226; https://doi.org/10.4225/15/5afcadad6c130; https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018_Filtered; http://nla.gov.au/nla.party-617536

The Retrospective Analysis of Antarctic Tracking Data (RAATD) is a Scientific Committee for Antarctic Research (SCAR) project led jointly by the Expert Groups on Birds and Marine Mammals and Antarctic Biodiversity Informatics, and endorsed by the Commission for the Conservation of Antarctic Marine Living Resources. The RAATD project team consolidated tracking data for multiple species of Antarctic meso- and top-predators to identify Areas of Ecological Significance. These datasets constitute the compiled tracking data from a large number of research groups that have worked in the Antarctic since the 1990s. This metadata record pertains to the "filtered" version of the data files. These files contain position estimates that have been processed using a state-space model in order to estimate locations at regular time intervals. For technical details of the filtering process, consult the data paper. The filtering code can be found in the https://github.com/SCAR/RAATD repository. This data set comprises one metadata csv file that describes all deployments, along with data files (3 files for each of 17 species). For each species there is: - an RDS file that contains the fitted filter model object and model predictions (this file is RDS format that can be read by the R statistical software package) - a PDF file that shows the quality control results for each individual model - a CSV file containing the interpolated position estimates For details of the file contents and formats, consult the data paper. The data are also available in a standardized version (see https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/SCAR_EGBAMM_RAATD_2018_Standardised) that contain position estimates as provided by the original data collectors (generally, raw Argos or GPS locations, or estimated GLS locations) without state-space filtering.