Overview & Context
Duke University’s Marine Geospatial Ecology Lab hosts OBIS-SEAMAP, a spatially referenced biogeographic data commons for marine megafauna. Duke’s public database serves as the foundation for Leviathan’s historical reference layers, providing the baseline context against which new real-time detections are measured.
Strategic Integration
WhaleMapper V1 was built using Duke’s OBIS-SEAMAP repository, aggregating over 183,000 historical sightings across four key species. By mapping these records onto Uber's H3 spatial grid, Leviathan allows operators to see current, real-time shore station detections overlaid directly onto decades of historical occurrence data at the exact same coordinates.
Strategic Collaboration & Pilots
The collaboration focuses on developing open-data pipeline protocols to feed validated, real-time occurrence logs from Leviathan's observatories back into the public OBIS-SEAMAP commons. Additionally, Leviathan plans to co-publish comparative studies analyzing how live, continuous shore telemetry complements historical vessel-based survey baselines, supporting regional ocean conservation research.
Joint Ventures & Research
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