Child Item 1: Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Northern Pintails (Anas acuta) - Processed Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 129 satellite transmitters attached to Northern Pintail ducks on their winter range in Japan, 2007-2009. The raw data were processed to accomplish two goals: flag implausible location estimates and decode raw sensor data. Three Comma Separate Value (CSV) tables are included in the "Argos Processed Data" (Child Item 1) of this data release: 1) the "diag_filteredLocations" table contains one record for every location estimate collected, accompanied by a binary flag that denotes an algorithm's plausibility check. Each record also...

Categories: Data; Tags: Anas acuta, Animal tracking, Animals/Vertebrates, Argos, Biota, All tags... Birds, Breeding area, Breeding sites, Distribution, Ducks/Geese/Swans, East Asia flyway, Ecological Dynamics, Environment, Field methods, Field sampling, Hokkaido, Honshu, Iwate, Izunuma, Japan, Migration, Migration (organisms), Migration pathway, Migratory birds, Migratory strategies, North Pacific Ocean, Northern Pintail, Ornithology, Overwintering, PTT, Platform Transmitter Terminal, Russia, Satellite transmitter, Seasonal distribution, Seasonal movement, Siberia, Species Life History, Species Migration, Telemetry, Tracking equipment, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, Wintering area, Fewer tags

Child Item 2: Argos Satellite Tracking Data for Northern Pintails (Anas acuta) - Raw Data

This metadata document describes the data contained in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. This data release contains all data collected by the Argos System from 129 satellite transmitters attached to Northern Pintail ducks on their winter range in Japan, 2007-2009. Five data files are included in the "Argos Raw Data" (Child Item 2) of this data release. Two data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DIAG (Diagnostic) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular Comma Separate Value (CSV) format. Two other data files (with identical content) contain the raw Argos DS (Dispose) data, one in the legacy verbose ASCII format and one in a tabular CSV format. The...

Categories: Data; Tags: Anas acuta, Animal tracking, Animals/Vertebrates, Argos, Biota, All tags... Birds, Breeding area, Breeding sites, Distribution, Ducks/Geese/Swans, East Asia flyway, Ecological Dynamics, Environment, Field methods, Field sampling, Hokkaido, Honshu, Iwate, Izunuma, Japan, Migration, Migration (organisms), Migration pathway, Migratory birds, Migratory strategies, North Pacific Ocean, Northern Pintail, Ornithology, Overwintering, PTT, Platform Transmitter Terminal, Russia, Satellite transmitter, Seasonal distribution, Seasonal movement, Siberia, Species Life History, Species Migration, Telemetry, Tracking equipment, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Wildlife, Wildlife Biology, Wintering area, Fewer tags