PV2006_0284

Harbor seal

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Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) is the marine animal followed in the study “Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 64729) deployed in the Gulf of Alaska from 2006-04-29 to 2007-08-18, deployment id 564ba0d2e36c4f907ceb8c9f”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 18 Aug 2007, 9:45 am. Released by IOOS Animal Telemetry Network (ERDDAP). The study is finished, so this is an archive, not a live location.

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Satellite photograph centred on the latest published position of this Harbor seal. — Satellite photograph of the latest published position. Imagery: Esri, Maxar, Earthstar Geographics, and the GIS User Community.

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Harbor seal (Phoca vitulina) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 64729) deployed in the Gulf of Alaska from 2006-04-29 to 2007-08-18, deployment id 564ba0d2e36c4f907ceb8c9f: 101 historical reports newly added to this application.

Movement summary

Window 15 May 2006, 11:44 am → 18 Aug 2007, 9:45 am · 101 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance: 1,132 km
Segments / gaps: 9 / 8
Longest gap: 171.9 days
Median interval: 55 min
Fastest segment: 5,491 km/h between reports

Flagged for review · 142 flags

source qc · 101 flags across 101 reports
Source QC flags: type:Argos, qartod_time:1, qartod_speed:2, qartod_location:1, qartod_rollup:1.
implausible displacement rate · 22 flags across 39 reports
Displacement of 5 km in 0.2 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.
application qc · 19 flags across 19 reports
Application QC flags: source_qc_suspect.

8 gap(s) longer than the 72 h gap rule; the route during each gap is unknown.

Deployments

Tag	Technology	Started	Ended	Status	Reports
satellite argos (Wildlife)	satellite_argos · NetCDF file created from position data obtained from Wildlife Computers API.	30 Apr 2006, 6:53 am	18 Aug 2007, 10:00 am	Ended (per provider)	101

Planet Journal

Journey available

Harbor seal in the Gulf of Alaska, 2006–2007

101 older reports from this track are now in the archive. They were added here; they are not a fresh movement.

Published 27 Oct 2026, 7:59 am · evidence checked 27 Oct 2026, 7:59 am

Journey available

Harbor seal in the Gulf of Alaska, 2006–2007

101 older reports from this track are now in the archive. They were added here; they are not a fresh movement.

Published 27 Oct 2026, 7:29 am · evidence checked 27 Oct 2026, 7:29 am

Journey available

Harbor seal in the Gulf of Alaska, 2006–2007

101 older reports from this track are now in the archive. They were added here; they are not a fresh movement.

Published 27 Oct 2026, 7:29 am · evidence checked 27 Oct 2026, 7:29 am

References

Citation recorded from dataset metadata at metadata check.

Generated 27 Oct 2026, 9:08 am under publication policy policy:atn-erddap:default@1,policy:crossref:metadata@1,policy:gbif:default@1,policy:motus@1,policy:obis:default@1,policy:ocearch:default@1,policy:otn-geoserver:default@1,policy:stc:default@1.