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    Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) species occurrence data

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    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.

    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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    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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    The Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS)

    How to cite

    Ocean Biodiversity Information System (OBIS) species occurrence data was accessed on DATE from https://registry.opendata.aws/obis .

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