Cetacean passive acoustic network in the Belgian part of the North sea
Calonge, A.; Navarro González, P.; Mortelmans, J.; Deneudt, K.; Hernandez, F.; Debusschere, E. (2024). Cetacean passive acoustic network in the Belgian part of the North sea. Scientific Data 11(1): 971. https://dx.doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03806-y
In: Scientific Data. Nature Publishing Group: London. ISSN 2052-4463; e-ISSN 2052-4463, more
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PORPOISES PHOCOENA-PHOCOENA;HARBOR;BEHAVIOR;TRENDS |
| Abstract |
In 2016, a design for detecting harbor porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) in the Belgian part of the North Sea (BPNS) was developed in the framework of the LifeWatch project using Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) loggers. In 2018, the network of deployments fully matured, and eight locations across the BPNS are presently housed with a C-POD (Chelonia Ltd., UK), a PAM logger moored on the seafloor using a multi-use platform. The PAM logger continuously listens for harbor porpoise click trains, but only stores the click parameters. This paper presents the generated data series of harbor porpoise click trains at a minute-resolution and the details on the individual click trains. The field recordings, methodology and processing are described, along with its data curation, integration and quality control. The data are annually published online in a standardized format, accompanied with the metadata description, and labelled with a digital object identifier for traceability. Data are published under a CC-BY license, allowing the use of data under the condition of providing reference to the original source. |
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- Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium; (2025): LifeWatch observatory data: Permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. Marine Data Archive., more
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