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IMOS - Fishing Vessels as Ships of Opportunity Sub-Facility - Real-time Quality Assurance and Quality Control Best Practice Manual

Created 28/09/2025

Updated 28/09/2025

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The Fishing Vessels as Ships of Opportunity Program (FishSOOP) is a sub-facility within Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) for oceanographic data collection using fishing vessels as Ships of Opportunity, run through the Sydney Institute of Marine Science (SIMS) and the University of New South Wales (UNSW), Sydney. FishSOOP operates in collaboration with the international Fishing Vessel Observation Network (FVON). This document outlines the recommended data quality assurance (QA) and data quality control (QC) procedures developed for FishSOOP. Detailed documentation is provided of QA and QC, including pre-deployment, during-deployment and post-deployment checks, and the quality control methods that are applied in real time, automated and delayed mode to ensure rigorous data collection, processing and archival of the de-identified data.

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Field Value
Title IMOS - Fishing Vessels as Ships of Opportunity Sub-Facility - Real-time Quality Assurance and Quality Control Best Practice Manual
Language eng
Licence Not Specified
Landing Page https://data.gov.au/data/dataset/e9327eb3-7705-4c3c-946d-98d0e2a0c631
Contact Point
Australian Ocean Data Network
v.lago@unsw.edu.au
Reference Period 07/08/2025
Geospatial Coverage Australia
Data Portal Australian Oceans Data Network

Data Source

This dataset was originally found on Australian Oceans Data Network "IMOS - Fishing Vessels as Ships of Opportunity Sub-Facility - Real-time Quality Assurance and Quality Control Best Practice Manual". Please visit the source to access the original metadata of the dataset:
https://catalogue.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/csw/dataset/imos-fishing-vessels-as-ships-of-opportunity-sub-facility-real-time-quality-assurance-and-quali