Deployment specifications for wave time series data collected at various locations throughout the waters of Nova Scotia by the Department of Fisheries and Aquaculture’s Aquaculture Division.
This dataset has the following 22 columns:
| Column Name | API Column Name | Data Type | Description | Sample Values |
|---|---|---|---|---|
| Deployment ID | deployment_id | text | Unique identifier assigned to each deployment | WGC0004 WRC0001 WIC0003 WDC0004 WQC0001 view top 100 |
| County | county | text | County in which the deployment took place | Yarmouth Guysborough Halifax Queens Shelburne view top 100 |
| Waterbody | waterbody | text | Waterbody into which the instrument was deployed | Lobster Bay Whycocomagh Bay Jordan Bay St. Mary's Bay Port Mouton view top 100 |
| Station Name | station_name | text | Description used to identify the approximate geographical area of the deployment | North Aberdeen Jordan Bay Canoe Island Chedabucto Bay East McNutts view top 100 |
| Lease# | lease | text | Identification number of Nova Scotia aquaculture lease within which deployment took place. N/A if not within a lease | NA 1042 826 955 912 view top 100 |
| Deployment Date | deployment_date | calendar_date | Date on which the instrument was deployed and began recording | 2020-09-24T00:00:00.000 2020-06-15T00:00:00.000 2020-10-22T00:00:00.000 2014-07-09T00:00:00.000 2019-02-07T00:00:00.000 view top 100 |
| Deployment Time | deployment_time | text | Time at which the instrument was deployed and began recording | 14:00 10:25 13:32 8:40 14:29 view top 100 |
| Deployment Latitude | deployment_latitude | number | Approximate latitude at which the instrument was deployed | 44.525425 43.91594 44.75179 46.2856 43.73992 view top 100 |
| Deployment Longitude | deployment_longitude | number | Approximate longitude at which the instrument was deployed | -64.81122 -64.6414 -65.2654 -66.22617 -64.639367 view top 100 |
| Deployment Sounding | deployment_sounding | number | Distance (meters) from sea surface to the sea floor at location at which the instrument was deployed, where applicable | 10 14 15 18 13 view top 100 |
| Recovery Date | recovery_date | calendar_date | Date at which last data reading was collected | 2021-02-01T00:00:00.000 2018-08-13T00:00:00.000 2020-09-15T00:00:00.000 2020-11-30T00:00:00.000 2020-12-09T00:00:00.000 view top 100 |
| Deployment Duration | deployment_duration | number | Number of days between first and last data readings | 35 31 36 28 92 view top 100 |
| Model | model | text | Specific instrument model used to record waves data, where applicable | Workhorse Sentinel 600kHz Sentinel V100 Sentinel V20 MarineLabs Buoy Xeos Buoy view top 100 |
| Frequency | frequency | number | Frequency (kilohertz) of the acoustic signals generated by the instrument, where applicable | 600 300 1000 500 view top 100 |
| Depth | depth | number | Approximate average distance (meters) between the sensing face of the instrument and the ocean surface, where applicable | 15 10 13 12 17 view top 100 |
| Altitude | altitude | number | Approximate distance (meters) between the sensing face of the instrument and the sea floor where applicable | 0.6 0.5 view top 100 |
| Bin Size | bin_size | number | Vertical size (meters) of parcels from which current data are recorded throughout the water column, where applicable | 1 0.5 0.75 view top 100 |
| First Bin Range | first_bin_range | number | Distance (meters) between the sensing face of the instrument and the vertical center of the first recorded bin, where applicable | 1 2.1 3 2.11 3.02 view top 100 |
| Ensemble Interval | ensemble_interval | number | Time (seconds) between the beginning of one data recording profile and the next, where applicable | 3600 7200 1800 3720 view top 100 |
| Averaging Interval | averaging_interval | number | Time (seconds) over which multiple recordings are taken and averaged during each ensemble, where applicable | 1200 600 view top 100 |
| Pings per Ensemble | pings_per_ensemble | number | Number of individual recordings taken and averaged over the course of the averaging interval, where applicable | 2400 1200 view top 100 |
| geo_location | geo_location | point | {"coordinates":[-65.194333,43.698722],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-62.47765,44.83698],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-61.25238,45.52248],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-61.03027,45.97742],"type":"Point"} {"coordinates":[-65.73993,43.46798],"type":"Point"} view top 100 |