Visual observations recorded during the New Zealand Australian Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015

The ‘Logger’ data entry system was developed by the International Fund for Animal Welfare (IFAW) and is a flexible system to record information during a voyage. All events occurring during daylight operations such as sightings, biopsy attempts and sonobuoy deployments were recorded in a customized data entry program Logger along with weather and effort data.

The logger access database contains all data collected throughout theNZ/Aus Antarctic Ecosystems Voyage 2015 related to:
Biopsy events (date/time in UTC, success, sample number, reaction, attempts, dart recovery, notes)
Comments - time stamped (UTC) with GPS index providing additional detail
Observer effort (effort status, event, number of observers and locations, ship guide and data logger)
Environmental observations (sightability, sea state, swell, weather, cloud cover, visibility, intensity, glare, ice, sea surface temperature)
GPS data - time indexed NMEA feed, also containing heading and ship speed
Lookup - table containing topic codes describing the codes that appear in all other tables
Cetacean sightings and resightings (date/time in UTC), sighting number, sighting platform, estimate distance, binocular reticles, angle, species, sighting cue, heading, estimate of number of individuals, observer of sighting, behaviour, pod compaction, comments)
Sonobuoy deployments (date/time in UTC, sonobuoy number, notes)

‘Logger’数据录入系统由国际动物福利基金会（International Fund for Animal Welfare, IFAW）研发，是一款可灵活适配航海场景的信息记录系统。所有日间作业期间发生的各类事件，包括鲸类目击记录、组织活检尝试与声呐浮标部署等，均通过定制化数据录入程序Logger进行收录，同时同步记录气象与观测作业相关数据。

该系统的访问数据库包含2015年新西兰/澳大利亚南极生态系统科考航次中收集的全部相关数据，具体涵盖以下类别：
- 活检事件：包含协调世界时（UTC）日期/时间、操作成功状态、样本编号、动物反应、尝试次数、飞镖回收情况及备注信息
- 备注信息：带协调世界时（UTC）时间戳，关联GPS索引以提供额外细节
- 观测作业记录：包含作业状态、事件类型、观测者人数与观测位置、船舶向导与数据录入员信息
- 环境观测记录：包含观测能见度、海况、涌浪、天气状况、云量、大气能见度、光照强度、眩光、浮冰分布、海表温度
- GPS数据：带时间索引的NMEA（National Marine Electronics Association）数据馈送，同时包含船舶航向与航速信息
- 代码对照表：包含用于描述其他所有表格中出现的编码的主题代码
- 鲸类目击与重访记录：包含协调世界时（UTC）日期/时间、目击编号、目击平台、预估距离、双筒望远镜分划线角度、方位角、物种、目击线索、航向、个体数量预估、目击观测者、行为特征、鲸群密集程度及备注信息
- 声呐浮标部署记录：包含协调世界时（UTC）日期/时间、声呐浮标编号及备注信息