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Record W7077080852 · doi:10.21963/13340

Iceberg Beacon Track Database (IBTD)

2025· dataset· en· W7077080852 on OpenAlex

Why this work is in the frame

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aboutThe title or abstract carries a Canadian signal from the geographic lexicon.
no affNo Canadian affiliation: this work is invisible to an affiliation-only frame.
No Canadian affiliation. An affiliation-only frame, the usual design, would never have seen this work. It is one of the works that make the case for inverting the frame.

Bibliographic record

VenueCanadian Cryospheric Information Network · 2025
Typedataset
Languageen
FieldComputer Science
TopicGeochemistry and Geologic Mapping
Canadian institutionsnot available
Fundersnot available
KeywordsIcebergTrack (disk drive)BeaconGeolocationMetadataGlobal Positioning SystemGeotaggingTimestamp

Abstract

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The Iceberg Beacon Track Database is a collection of 224 iceberg drift tracks with a total of 719,045 positions from the Arctic and (North) Atlantic oceans. Each track is accompanied by metadata that describes the iceberg shape, dimensions (m), beacon model, and other ancillary information that can be used in research related to iceberg drift climatology, developing and validating drift models, and validating remote sensing iceberg detection algorithms. The beacon tracks were collected by 12 academic, industry, and government research groups from 1997 to 2025. They all include timestamps (UTC) and position data (latitude and longitude: dd.dddd°), and may include temperature (K), barometric pressure (Pa), heading, pitch, and roll (degrees). All beacon tracks have been processed and consolidated into the same framework, and are available in geospatial formats for mapping and analysis. Although the current data extent is largely within Canadian waters, we consider all drift tracks of Northern Hemisphere icebergs and related features (ice islands, bergy bits, and other fragments) to be within the scope of this collection. We encourage those who have beacon tracks to submit them for inclusion into subsequent versions of the Iceberg Beacon Track Database.

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Full frame distilled prediction

Teacher imitation

Not calibrated prevalence, not ground truth. Human validation pending. Learned from the 10,348 direct Codex labels and 10,348 direct Gemma labels. Candidate is the union of thresholded teacher heads; consensus is their intersection. These outputs are machine_predicted_unvalidated and are not human labels or direct frontier model labels.

metaresearch head score (Codex)0.000
metaresearch head score (Gemma)0.000
Version: codex-gemma-dda1882f352aValidation status: machine_predicted_unvalidated
Candidate categoriesMeta-epidemiology (narrow)
Consensus categoriesnone
DomainCandidate signal: none · Consensus signal: none
Study designCandidate signal: Not applicable · Consensus signal: Not applicable
GenreCandidate signal: Dataset · Consensus signal: Dataset
Teacher disagreement score0.054
Threshold uncertainty score1.000

Codex and Gemma teacher scores by category

CategoryCodexGemma
Metaresearch0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (narrow)0.0000.000
Meta-epidemiology (broad)0.0000.000
Bibliometrics0.0000.001
Science and technology studies0.0000.000
Scholarly communication0.0000.001
Open science0.0020.000
Research integrity0.0000.001
Insufficient payload (model declined to judge)0.0010.000

Machine scores (provisional)

The two teacher heads of the student model, read on this work. A score orders the frame for review; it never asserts a category, and the validation status ships verbatim with every row.

Baseline scores from an immature model (maturity gate not passed, 7 training rounds). Scores rank; they never assert a category.

Opus teacher head0.007
GPT teacher head0.198
Teacher spread0.191 · how far apart the two teachers sit on this one work
Validation statusscore_only:v0-immature-baseline · verbatim from the scoring run: score_only means the number may rank works, and no category label ships from it