Underway Ocean Sensor Data from RV Solander Voyage 6392

Data from 05 Jan 2016 to 19 Jan 2016 collected by the Australian Integrated Marine Observing System's Ships of Opportunity facility. The dataset contains sensor measurements from the RV Solander Trip 6392, gathered by the 'Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels' sub-facility.

Use Cases

• Analyze time series of sensor data from the RV Solander to study short-term oceanographic variability.
• Correlate underway sensor measurements with known voyage metadata like date and vessel for quality control.
• Use the data for calibrating or validating other marine environmental monitoring datasets from the same region.

Strengths

• Data collected under the national-scale Australian Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) project.
• Specific temporal coverage from 05 Jan 2016 to 19 Jan 2016 provides a focused two-week observation period.
• Associated with the 'Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels' sub-facility, indicating a specialized collection protocol.

Limitations

• Unknown data volume, row count, and specific sensor variables (columns) are not provided.
• Data is from a single, short voyage, limiting spatial and temporal generalizability.
• Available file formats (WMS, PNG, HTML) suggest the primary data may be served as visualizations or web services rather than raw tabular data.

Provenance

Source

Australian Ocean Data Network via the Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) Ships of Opportunity facility.

Collection Method

Collected by the 'Sensors on Tropical Research Vessels' sub-facility aboard the research vessel RV Solander.

Time Range

05 Jan 2016 to 19 Jan 2016

Freshness

Metadata was last updated on 2026-03-22, but the underlying data is from January 2016.

Geography

Voyage path of the RV Solander (Trip 6392), likely in Australian tropical waters.