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Polar Services - Antarctic - Meta-Data Summaries (1998/99 Season) - B-009 Siniff

B-009 Siniff 

Data Set Name: 
B-009 1998/99

Investigator: 
PI:  Donald Siniff
POC: Tom Gelatt
Institution: University of Minnesota
Email:  gela0001tc.umn.edu
Web Site:  http://siniff3.ecology.umn.edu

Data Type:
DGPS positions

Dates:
11/98

Location:
Name: Big Razorback Island
Coordinates: 77 40 S  166 30 E  	
Radius: 2 km

Data Center:
N/A
Summary:
Field project leader Tom Gelatt requested GPS support to better locate radio transmitter equipped seal positions relative to each other and to Big Razorback Island. The shoreline of the island was digitized using the Geo Explorer DGPS system, creating a geo-referenced outline suitable for GIS applications. Seal positions could then be plotted on this map, either by hand or as DGPS positions. Big Razorback Island has been the operational base for the B-009 Weddell seal census study for many years, and this year's GPS efforts were to aid the study of how male seals maintain their spatial relationships through the season.
 

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