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Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) species occurrence data

biodiversity coastal conservation ecosystems environmental geospatial life sciences oceans water

Description

The Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) was founded in 2000 under the Census of Marine Life. It is now a programme component of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. OBIS aims to be the most comprehensive data and information gateway on the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life to support its Member States in achieving a healthy and resilient ocean ecosystem. The OBIS network consists of over 30 regional and thematic nodes, and provides access to more than 5,000 datasets published by hundreds of organizations such as research institutions, government agencies, and citizen science platforms.

Update Frequency

Weekly

License

https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0/

Documentation

Documentation for this dataset is available at https://github.com/iobis/obis-open-data. More information about the OBIS data standards can be found in the OBIS manual at https://manual.obis.org.

Managed By

The Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)

See all datasets managed by The Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS).

Contact

helpdesk@obis.org

How to Cite

Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) species occurrence data was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/obis. Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) OBIS Occurrence Data https://doi.org/10.25607/obis.occurrence.b89117cd.

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Resources on AWS

  • Description
    Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) species occurrence data as GeoParquet files.
    Resource type
    S3 Bucket
    Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
    arn:aws:s3:::obis-open-data
    AWS Region
    us-east-1
    AWS CLI Access (No AWS account required)
    aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://obis-open-data/
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