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Blainville's beaked whale

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Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) is the marine animal followed in the study “Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 94821) deployed in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, and the North Pacific Ocean from 2009-12-21 to 2010-01-11, deployment id 55c93aed60d4250ec83446b2”. Positions come from a satellite tag. The newest published position was recorded 9 Jan 2010, 10:47 pm. Released by IOOS Animal Telemetry Network (ERDDAP). The study is finished, so this is an archive, not a live location.

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Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) location data from a satellite telemetry tag (ptt id 94821) deployed in the Hawaiian Islands Humpback Whale National Marine Sanctuary, and the North Pacific Ocean from 2009-12-21 to 2010-01-11, deployment id 55c93aed60d4250ec83446b2: 110 historical reports newly added to this application.

Movement summary

Window 22 Dec 2009, 8:17 am → 9 Jan 2010, 10:47 pm · 110 accepted reports · algorithm movement-summary/1.0.0

Reported-position distance
1,626 km
Segments / gaps
1 / 0
Longest gap
not available
Median interval
3.5 h
Fastest segment
1,607.4 km/h between reports
Flagged for review · 128 flags
  • source qc · 110 flags across 110 reports
    Source QC flags: type:Argos, qartod_time:1, qartod_speed:2, qartod_location:1, qartod_rollup:1.
  • implausible displacement rate · 9 flags across 18 reports
    Displacement of 51 km in 0.8 h exceeds the review threshold; may reflect positioning uncertainty, assignment problems or an outlier.
  • application qc · 9 flags across 9 reports
    Application QC flags: source_qc_fail, exclude_from_trail.

Deployments

TagTechnologyStartedEndedStatusReports
satellite argos (Wildlife)satellite_argos · NetCDF file created from position data obtained from Wildlife Computers API.22 Dec 2009, 5:40 am11 Jan 2010, 10:20 pmEnded (per provider)110

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References

  1. Citation recorded from dataset metadata at metadata check.

Generated 27 Oct 2026, 9:09 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.

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