NESP MaC Project 3.15 provides data outputs for southern right whale management. The project includes aerial survey data for population trends, photo-identification catalogs, genetic data for connectivity, and movement tracking datasets. The Australian Ocean Data Network is the organization, and the project metadata was last updated on 2026-04-29.
Use Cases
- Update population abundance trends based on aerial survey data mentioned in the description
- Identify biologically important reproductive areas based on photo-identification catalogs
- Assess connectivity between eastern and western subpopulations based on genetic data
- Expand utility of whale observation datasets based on integrative methods for combining opportunistic and formal data
Strengths
- Project includes multiple integrated data types: population assessments, photo catalogs, genetic data, and movement tracking
- Metadata was last updated on 2026-04-29, indicating recent maintenance
Limitations
- Description metadata is limited; actual data quality requires manual inspection after download
- Column-level documentation is absent; field semantics must be inferred after download
Provenance
- Source
- Australian Ocean Data Network
- Collection Method
- Aerial surveys, photo-identification, genetic sampling, and movement tracking
- Geography
- Southern right whale habitats, likely focusing on Australian waters