| Summary: | Progress Code: completed Purpose One aim of the Antarctic blue whale voyage was to attempt to deploy satellite tags on Antarctic blue whales in order to describe their movement and behaviour. This was the first time satellite tags had ever been deployed on Antarctic blue whales. Antarctic blue whale movement has been described using static location information such as that derived from the retrieval of a discovery-tagged whales, photo identification or acoustic data. These techniques however are unable to provide a continuous record of actual movements instead inferring movement from two (or more) known locations at two (or more) separate points in time. Actual movements of the whale between these points in time are not known. As such, detailed information such as large scale migratory movement between breeding and feeding grounds or even fine scale movement within a feeding ground remain poorly understood. This file contains the deployment metadata for satellite tag deployments during the Antarctic blue whale voyage 2013. Specifically, this file contains: Argos Number – the platform transmitting terminal identification number assigned by Argos Date (UTC) Time (UTC) Location (at deployment) Field trip (field trip identifier) Deployment Lat itude Deployment Longitude Species Sex (as determined via biopsy sample analysis) Body condition Maturity Group Size Initial Activity Deployment Method (used to deploy satellite tag) Airgun Pressure (bar) Shot distance (m) %age Implanted (percentage of tag implanted – 100% = full implantation) Reaction (to tagging) Boat driver Tag Shooter Biopsy Shooter Filmed? Photo Id taken? Frame number (of photo ID image) Biopsy taken? Biopsy ID (sample identification number) A data update was provided in August, 2022. Three files were added: BDJ_Argos_locs_SDA_filter.csv (Antarctic blue whale tracking data - Argos locations with SDA filter outcome, state space model with move persistence/behavioural index) BDJ_ssm_2h_mpm.csv (State space model output at 2h time step with move ...
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