CETUS: Cetacean monitoring surveys in the Eastern North Atlantic ...

• Main Authors: Correia, Ana Mafalda, Gandra, Miguel, Liberal, Marcos, Valente, Raul, Gil, Ãgaha, Rosso, Massimiliano, Pierce, Graham, Sousa Pinto, Isabel, Interdisciplinary Centre For Marine And Environmental Research Porto-University Of Porto, Portugal
• Format: Dataset
• Language: English
• Published: Marine Data Archive 2019
• Subjects: Biology > Mammals; Cetacea; North Atlantic
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.14284/350; http://www.vliz.be/en/imis?dasid=6202&doiid=350

The CETUS dataset contains effort-based occurrence records collected during a cetacean monitoring programme in the Eastern North Atlantic, since 2012. ... : The CETUS dataset contains data collected within the CETUS Project (www.cetusproject.com), a cetacean monitoring programme in the Eastern North Atlantic, running since 2012. The project is led by the Interdisciplinary Centre of Marine and Environmental Research (CIIMAR - University of Porto, Portugal), in partnership with TRANSINSULAR - Grupo ETE, a Portuguese company for maritime transport, that offers its cargo ships to be used as a platforms of opportunity to monitor cetaceans along routes between Continental Portugal and Madeira, Azores, Canary and Cape Verde islands. On-board trained marine mammal observers collect data on: survey effort, cetacean and other megafauna occurrences, as well as marine traffic and meteorological conditions. Data is provided in the recent OBIS-ENV-DATA format, and comprises 8913 georeferenced positions associated with 3195 occurrences of 44 marine taxa. ...