Biological Satellite Telemetry Data

• Main Author: Norwegian Polar Institute Npolar.No
• Format: Dataset
• Language: unknown
• Published: npolar.no 2013
• Subjects: Arctic; Bouvet; Bouvetøya; Svalbard; Arctic Fox; håkjerring; ivory gull; Klappmyss; Norwegian Polar Institute; polar bear; Ringsel; rock ptarmigan; steinkobbe; svalbard reindeer; Svalbard Rock Ptarmigan; walrus*
• Online Access: https://dx.doi.org/10.21334/npolar.2013.7e19e1eb; https://data.npolar.no/dataset/7e19e1eb-83ac-46b4-8b3a-befb860efe38

The Norwegian Polar Insitute's tracking data, consisting of positions and physical measurements from transmitter platforms attached to polar animals. |[Active tracking programs](http://api.npolar.no/tracking/deployment/?q=&not-terminated=0..)| (platforms)| technology |program| |**Polar bear** | argos | 9660 | * **Ivory gull** - argos 10660 * **Svalbard reindeer** (NN) - gps * **Arctic fox** - argos 10660 Earlier tracking programs * Svalbard rock ptarmigan - argos 14660 * Seals and walrus * ? 16666 Seal/Penguin [Bouvetøya?] * #12660: Klappmyss (Christian L.) #15660: Håkjerring (Christian L.) #16660: Steinkobbe, muligens er endel av disse sel og pingviner på Bouvet (Christian L.) #29660: Oseanografi (Sebastian G.) #30660: Kittiwake (opprinnelig Øysten Varpe) #31660: Ringsel (Christian L.) The data is published in a searchable HTTP API, with a integrated data browser: [http://api.npolar.no/tracking/?q=](http://api.npolar.no/tracking/?q=) system of record The data is stored as JSON and is raw data: No filtering or processing has been done, except translating the original message format into JSON. Each JSON document is a 1:1 representation of the original message from the tracking platform and carries all the available original data. For details about the data format, see [Tracking-API-JSON](https://github.com/npolar/api.npolar.no/wiki/Tracking-API-JSON). Data management operations Unaltered source data are continuously harvested from the tracking platform vendor and stored on disk. Source files are then analysed and validated and the resulting metadata is published in the Source API. Valid source files are translated into JSON and published in the Tracking API #### Source API Example: * [CSV of all Argos sources from 1991](http://api.npolar.no/source/?q=&filter-collection=tracking&filter-start=1991-01-01..1992-01-01&filter-technology=argos&format=csv&fields=sha1:id,size,total,location,start,stop,north,east,south,west&sort=start&format=csv) History The Norwegian Polar Institute deployed it's first Argos buoy in 1979. The earliest Argos file in today's disk archive stems from 1989, while the oldest data in the Tracking API is from 1991. Copies of older data may be kept on old tape backup systems. This dataset has a considerable size, currently (February 2014) it consists of about 5 million individual tracking messages. * Download instructions * Original data * Restrictions