Underway Oceanographic Sensor Data from RV Cape Ferguson July 2018

12 days of underway sensor data collected by the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System's Ships of Opportunity facility aboard the RV Cape Ferguson. This dataset supports marine science and environmental monitoring for a specific research voyage from July 1 to July 12, 2018. The data originates from the 'Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels' sub-facility.

Use Cases

• Analyze time-series sensor data for oceanographic patterns during the July 2018 voyage.
• Correlate underway measurements with known environmental monitoring tags like Oceanography and Marine Science.
• Use the specific voyage identifier (Trip 6958) to integrate this data with other IMOS datasets for spatiotemporal analysis.

Strengths

• Data collected under the authoritative Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) project.
• Provides a focused 12-day temporal snapshot from a specific research vessel voyage (Trip 6958).
• Tagged with specific, relevant domains including Oceanography, Marine Science, and Australia.

Limitations

• No column names, sample data, or row counts are provided, limiting immediate analytical utility.
• Available file formats (WMS, PNG, HTML) suggest the data may be primarily served as visualizations or maps, not raw tabular data.
• The license is unspecified, which may restrict commercial or redistribution use cases.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network via the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS).

Collection Method

Collected by the 'Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels' sub-facility of the Ships of Opportunity (SOOP) program.

Time Range

From 01 July 2018 to 12 July 2018.

Freshness

Metadata was last updated in March 2026, but the underlying data is from July 2018.

Geography

Australia (implied by vessel and project origin; specific voyage track unknown).