The European Ocean Biogeographic Information System - EurOBIS - is an online marine biogeographic database compiling data on all living marine creatures. The principle aims of EurOBIS are to centralize the largely scattered biogeographic data on marine species collected by European institutions and to make these data freely available and easily accessible. All data go through a number of quality control procedures before they are made available online, assuring a minimum level of quality necessary to put the data to good use. The available data are either collected within European marine waters or by European researchers and institutes outside Europe. The database focuses on taxonomy and distribution records in space and time; all data can be searched and visualised through a set of online mapping tools. All data are freely available online and easily accessible, without requiring a login or password.

The International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (ICES), is a global organization that develops science and advice to support the sustainable use of the oceans. ICES is a network of more than 5,000 scientists from over 690 marine institutes in 20 member countries and beyond. 1,500 scientists participate in our activities annually. ICES has a well-established Data Centre, which manages a number of large dataset collections related to the marine environment. The majority of data – covering the Northeast Atlantic, Baltic Sea, Greenland Sea, and Norwegian Sea – originate from national institutes that are part of the ICES network. The ICES Data Centre provides marine data services to ICES member countries, expert groups, world data centres, regional seas conventions (HELCOM and OSPAR), the European Environment Agency (EEA), Eurostat, and various other European projects and biodiversity portals. ICES aims to provide all data collections online and according to the ICES Data policy, which enables open access to all data that are do not fall under specific commercial or personal privacy concerns.

Données d’occurrence des échouages de mammifères marins collectées par les correspondants du Réseau National Echouages (date, position, espèce) en Outre-Mer en 2014-2020. cdNom: code de l'espèce observée selon taxref nomCite: nom latin de l'espèce observée selon taxref date_obs: jj/mm/aaaa, date de l'observation de l'animal échoué y: y en degrés décimaux de la commune de l'échouage x: x en degrés décimaux de la commune de l'échouage codeCommune: code de la commune de l'échouage selon l'INSEE nomCommune: nom de la commune selon l'INSEE identiteObservateur: nom du correspondant ayant effectué l'observation organismeObservateur: organisme du correspondant ayant effectué l'observation organismeGestionnaireDonnees: organisme assurant la gestion de la base de données

Occurrence data of strandings of marine mammals collected by the correspondents of the National Stranding Network (date, position, species) in metropolitan France in 2014-2020.

Occurrence data for marine mammals, birds and other marine megafauna collected by Megascope on fishing and oceanographic surveys (date, position, species).

The associated data highlights the sampling programme for the data acquisition campaign of Observation on the Aerial Platform for the SAMM2 campaign (Aerial Marine Megafauna Monitoring) conducted by the PELAGIS observatory.