Argos location data for southern right whales satellite tagged off New Zealand and South Australia

Sixteen satellite tags were deployed on adult southern right whales. Six of these tags were deployed on adult southern right whales at the Auckland Islands (AI), New Zealand (50.5˚S 166.3˚E) between 24 July and 2 August 2009 and one tag was deployed on a sub-adult at Pirates Bay (PB), Tasmania (43.2˚S 147.9˚E) in October 2010. Nine tags were deployed on adult southern right whales at Head of the Bight (HOB), South Australia (31.5˚S 131.1˚E) on 6 and 7 September 2015. However, tag performance was highly variable. Three of the six tags deployed at the AI ceased transmitting before the individuals moved out of the winter aggregation area. No transmissions were received from a fourth tag until 39 days after deployment at which point the whale was south of Western Australia and although the tag transmitted for 22 days, there was insufficient data to interpolate a track suitable to be included in analyses. Of the nine tags deployed at HOB, three tags failed to transmit, and three tags ceased transmitting within six days.

Migratory movements from coastal calving grounds were successfully obtained for six individuals (AI=2, PB =1, HOB = 3) and detailed in the publication: Migratory movements of Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) from Australia and New Zealand.

This file includes the following data fields -
PTT: the unique Argos identifier assigned to each satellite tag
Datetime: the date and time in gmt with the format 'yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss'
Longitude
Latitude
Quality: the Argos assigned location class (see paper for details)
Location: deployment location

本研究共为成年南露脊鲸（southern right whale）部署了16颗卫星标签。其中6颗标签于2009年7月24日至8月2日期间，在新西兰奥克兰群岛（Auckland Islands，简称AI，坐标50.5°S 166.3°E）部署于成年南露脊鲸身上；另有1颗标签于2010年10月在澳大利亚塔斯马尼亚州海盗湾（Pirates Bay，简称PB，坐标43.2°S 147.9°E）部署于亚成体南露脊鲸身上。2015年9月6日至7日，在澳大利亚南澳州比格特角（Head of the Bight，简称HOB，坐标31.5°S 131.1°E）为成年南露脊鲸部署了9颗标签。

但各标签的工作性能差异极大：在奥克兰群岛部署的6颗标签中，有3颗在受试个体离开冬季聚集区前便停止了信号传输；第4颗标签在部署39天后才首次传回信号，此时该鲸已位于西澳大利亚州以南海域，尽管该标签后续持续传输了22天，但获取的数据量不足以插值生成可用于分析的完整轨迹。在比格特角部署的9颗标签中，3颗完全未传输信号，另有3颗在部署后6天内便停止传输。

本数据集成功获取了6头受试个体（AI组2头、PB组1头、HOB组3头）的沿海产崽地洄移动态，相关细节已发表于论文《来自澳大利亚与新西兰的南露脊鲸（Eubalaena australis）洄游运动》（*Migratory movements of Southern right whales (Eubalaena australis) from Australia and New Zealand*）。

本文件包含以下数据字段：
- PTT：分配给每颗卫星标签的唯一阿尔戈斯（Argos）标识符
- Datetime：以格林尼治标准时间（GMT）标注的日期与时间，格式为`yyyy-mm-dd hh:mm:ss`
- Longitude：经度
- Latitude：纬度
- Quality：阿尔戈斯（Argos）分配的位置等级（详细说明参见论文）
- Location：部署地点