Description
The favourable feeding habitat of fin whale is daily identified linking their ecological traits with environmental variables from satellite remote sensing. The feeding habitat is mostly related to the occurrence of productive oceanic features (such as eddies) that are detected by satellite sensors of ocean colour (chlorophyll-a fronts). No physical variable is used besides a minimum water depth of 90m. More information: https://fishreg.jrc.ec.europa.eu/fish-habitat, Peer-reviewed publications: http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/meps/v464/p289-306/ https://www.nature.com/articles/s41598-017-03560-9
Contact
Contributors
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- Jean-Noel Druon
- 0000-0002-0824-8778
How to cite
Druon, Jean-Noel (2019): EMIS - Favourable feeding habitat of fin whale Monthly 1998-2018 (frequency of occurence, %). European Commission, Joint Research Centre (JRC) [Dataset] PID: http://data.europa.eu/89h/343b4357-6550-4dcb-ba38-1f5b78f3ac9e
Keywords
climate change Feeding Habitat Fin whale GIS digital format marine environment marine monitoring Marine protected area ocean color Ocean model satellite observations
Data access
Direct NetCDF download
Publications
Spatial coverage
Type | Value |
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GML | <gml:Polygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml"> <gml:outerBoundaryIs> <gml:LinearRing> <gml:coordinates>-30,70 42,70 42,10 -30,10 -30,70</gml:coordinates> </gml:LinearRing> </gml:outerBoundaryIs></gml:Polygon> |
GML | <gml:Polygon xmlns:gml="http://www.opengis.net/gml/3.2"> <gml:exterior> <gml:LinearRing> <gml:posList>-30 70 42 70 42 10 -30 10 -30 70</gml:posList> </gml:LinearRing> </gml:exterior></gml:Polygon> |
WKT | POLYGON ((-30 70, 42 70, 42 10, -30 10, -30 70)) |
Temporal coverage
From date | To date |
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1998-01-01 | 2018-12-31 |
Lineage information
General information: Model performance is assessed against the distance of presence data to closest habitat. For fin whale, 75% of observations are closer than 4 km of favourable feeding habitat (n = 1505).
Additional information
- Published by
- European Commission, Joint Research Centre
- Created date
- 2020-11-23
- Modified date
- 2020-11-23
- Issued date
- 2019-07-09
- Landing page
- http://emis.jrc.ec.europa.eu/
- Language(s)
- English
- Data theme(s)
- Environment
- Update frequency
- unknown
- Identifier
- http://data.europa.eu/89h/343b4357-6550-4dcb-ba38-1f5b78f3ac9e
- Popularity
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