
Overview
The Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) was founded in 2000 under the Census of Marine Life. It is now a programme component of the International Oceanographic Data and Information Exchange (IODE) programme of the Intergovernmental Oceanographic Commission (IOC) of UNESCO. OBIS aims to be the most comprehensive data and information gateway on the diversity, distribution and abundance of marine life to support its Member States in achieving a healthy and resilient ocean ecosystem. The OBIS network consists of over 30 regional and thematic nodes, and provides access to more than 5,000 datasets published by hundreds of organizations such as research institutions, government agencies, and citizen science platforms.
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- To access these resources, reference the Amazon Resource Name (ARN) using the AWS Command Line Interface (CLI). Learn more
- Description
- Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) species occurrence data as GeoParquet files.
- Resource type
- S3 bucket
- Amazon Resource Name (ARN)
- arn:aws:s3:::obis-open-data
- AWS region
- us-east-1
- AWS CLI access (No AWS account required)
- aws s3 ls --no-sign-request s3://obis-open-data/
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Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) species occurrence data was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/obis .
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