Dataset: Wave Glider - Navigation - AIS

Name: Honey Badger (Wave Glider) tracking data from the Automatic Identification Sensor (AIS) collected in the North Pacific gyre in 2015 (MAGI project)
Published: 2016-08-08
Keywords: oceans

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Spatial Extent: N:29.47909 E:-144.82668 S:19.99672 W:-156.05396

Temporal Extent: 2015-09-02 - 2015-09-09

Project:

Long Duration AUVs as tools to explore Mesoscale feature aggregate interactions (MAGI) (MAGI)

Principal Investigator:

Tracy A. Villareal (University of Texas at Austin, UT Austin)

Co-Principal Investigator:

Dr Cara Wilson (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration - Southwest Fisheries Science Center, NOAA SWFSC ERD)

Contact:

Tracy A. Villareal (University of Texas at Austin, UT Austin)

BCO-DMO Data Manager:

Amber D. York (Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, WHOI BCO-DMO)

Version Date:

2016-08-08

Restricted:

Validated:

Yes

Current State:

Final no updates expected

Honey Badger (Wave Glider) tracking data from the Automatic Identification Sensor (AIS) collected in the North Pacific gyre in 2015 (MAGI project)

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Description

These data from the AIS (Automatic Identification Sensor) include latitude, longitude, speed over ground, rate of turn, and heading of the AUV Honey Badger (Wave Glider model V2) during a deployment in May of 2015 in the North Pacific Ocean.

For more information on project MAGI and a description of Honey Badger, see: http://oceanview.pfeg.noaa.gov/MAGI/

Additional support was provided by the PacX Challenge from Liquid Robotics, Inc.

Methods & Sampling

The AUV Honey Badger is a Wave Glider® (model SV2) from Liquid Robotics. It was deployed from the Island of Hawai'i in May of 2015 as part of Mesoscale Features Aggregate Interactions (MAGI) project . The trackline is in the North Pacific Ocean and passes the ocean time-series station ALOHA.

For more information on project MAGI and a description of Honey Badger, see: http://oceanview.pfeg.noaa.gov/MAGI/

Data Processing Description

These data are raw telemetry data obtained through the Wave Glider management system at Liquid Robotics, International.

For more information about this softare please see the Liquid Robotics Software Page:

http://www.liquid-robotics.com/platform/software/

BCO-DMO Data Manager Processing Notes:
* added a conventional header with dataset name, PI name, version date
* modified parameter names to conform with BCO-DMO naming conventions
* blank values replaced with no data value 'nd'
* values of "NaN" and "nan" changed to "nd"
* latitude and longitude were rounded to 5 decimal places from 12

Data Files

File
ais.csv (Comma Separated Values (.csv), 7.01 KB) MD5:b488288906c3ec22cec719b547c3e346 Primary data file for dataset ID 653394

More Information about this dataset

Funding Sources

Funding Source	Award Number
NSF Division of Ocean Sciences	OCE-1430048

Deployments

Deployment	Synonyms	Start Date	Platform	Investigator
HoneyBadger2015		2015-10-31	AUV Honey Badger		data info

Instruments

Automatic Identification Sensor

Supplied Name: AIS

Supplied Description:

Instrument Type

Generic Name: Automatic Identification Sensor

Acronym: AIS

Generic Description:

Automatic tracking system used on ships and by vessel traffic services (VTS) for identifying and locating vessels by electronically exchanging data with other nearby ships, AIS base stations, and satellites.

Parameters

Date and time formats are described in python strftime() syntax.

Supplied Name	Supplied description	Supplied Units	Standard Name
ISO_DateTime_UTC	Time (UTC) in format YYYY-mm-ddTHH:MM:SS[.xx]Z	unitless	ISO_DateTime_UTC
lat	Latitude	decimal degrees	lat
lon	Longitude; west is negative	decimal degrees	lon
COG	Course over ground	degrees	cog
SOG	Speed over ground	knots	sog
rot	Rotational velocity (rate of turn)	degrees per minute	rotational_vel
Heading	Heading	degrees	heading

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Dataset: Wave Glider - Navigation - AIS