Joint Cetacean Data Programme Database

The Joint Cetacean Data Programme (JCDP) aims to promote and facilitate streamlined access to cetacean survey data collected from vessel and aerial platforms, by collating the growing evidence-base across the northeast Atlantic into a single accessible resource.

The JCDP encourages data collectors to come together to make high quality standardised data more readily available via the JCDP Data Portal and enable development of open access data products to better inform research. The project has produced an agreed Data Standard and created a dedicated online portal to host cetacean survey data collected from vessel and aerial platforms, as well as a number of key data products that will be developed from the data.

More information about the programme is available on the JCDP Information Portal: www.jncc.gov.uk/JCDP