Marine animal satellite telemetry location and profile data from the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN)

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This dataset contains satellite telemetry location and profile data collected from satellite-linked tags deployed on marine animals and contributed by organizations that are part of the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN). The data were submitted to the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN) Data Assembly Center, and were aggregated, managed, and displayed through the ATN data portal, hosted by the National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration (NOAA) U.S. Integrated Ocean Observing System (IOOS) office. A subset of individual deployments were made available as netCDF files to the NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information (NCEI) for ATN by Axiom Data Science.

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temporal	2005-04-05T00:00:00+00:00/2005-04-05T00:00:00+00:00
title	Marine animal satellite telemetry location and profile data from the U.S. Animal Telemetry Network (ATN)

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