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California Roadkill Observation System (CROS)

California Roadkill Observation System (CROS)

CROS is the largest system of its kind in the US, combining agency and volunteer-collected carcass data. The data/metadata are compliant with international data management standards and CROS data have been used by transportation/wildlife agency planners and biologists, academic scientists, and consultants. The accuracy of species identification has been measured to be ~97% and median locational accuracy is ~13 m. 

You can read more about the technical and scientific aspects of CROS here: http://journal.frontiersin.org/article/10.3389/fevo.2017.00089/full

Additional Metadata Information

The following fields are provided for observation-based point data.

Animal -- The animal species involved in the incident, including the scientific name.

Animal Category -- Whether the animal is a amphibian, bird, mammal or reptile.

Animal Group -- The subgroup the animal is member.

Observation Date -- The full date and time of the observation / incident.

Year -- The Year the incident occurred.  This is to summaries the data by year.

Location -- The latitude and longitude coordinates of the incident (WGS 84).

CROS Homepage

California Roadkill Observation System. (Year, Month). https://www.wildlifecrossing.net/california/

Version 0.2.1 Beta -- list of changes by version

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