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LifeWatch Belgium Cetacean Passive Acoustic Monitoring Network, contribution by MARECO

Presence and activity of harbour porpoises at specific locations is measured by passive acoustic monitoring using hydrophones (C-PODs) (Chelonia Inc). C-PODs can detect odontocete whale, dolphin, and porpoise clicks within a frequency range of 20 – 160 kHz continuously up to at least 300 metres away. They are durable pieces of equipment and can be used in many different environments. Rather than recording audio files, C-PODs collect and store information on the tonal clicks that they detect. This significantly lengthens their battery life and allows them to be particularly useful for long-term studies. Once the C-POD detects a click, it can record the time, centre frequency, sound pressure level, duration and bandwidth of each click that is produced.

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Date (Creation)
2021-01-07T18:34:14Z
Date (Revision)
2021-01-11T16:56:37Z
Date (Publication)
2026-01-20T16:12:57.534Z
Date (Creation)
2016-05-19
Unique resource identifier
https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2480
Date
Unique resource identifier
http://www.vliz.be/en/imis?module=dataset&dasid=5531
Identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:2480

Belgian Marine Data Centre

Other citation details

This dataset is composed of the following sources: (1) LifeWatch observatory data: passive acoustic network (CPOD) for Cetacean detection. (2) LifeWatch passive acoustic network for Cetacean detection data portal. (3) Bob Rumes (n.d.). Passive acoustic data for Cetacean detection gathered by RBINS (CPOD).

Publisher
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
Distributor
  LifeWatch Belgium
Owner
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.naturalsciences.be
Author
  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Marine Ecology and Management (MARECO)
3e en 23e Linieregimentsplein, Block S, 1st floor, 8400 OOSTENDE, Belgium ,
https://www.naturalsciences.be/en/science/do/533
Keywords
  • Species distribution
European Legislation Identifier
  • Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
  • marine mammal
  • noise monitoring
  • environmental monitoring
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https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
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Spatial representation type
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Metadata language
English
Topic category
  • Oceans
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Date
Unique resource identifier
Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone
gml32:beginPosition
2014-06-23
Reference system identifier
EPSG / http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258
Distribution format
  • text/html ( Unknown )

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Custodian
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
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text/html

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OnLine resource
LifeWatch observatory data: passive acoustic network (CPOD) for Cetacean detection ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

An HTTP link to view information

Distributor

Distributor
  LifeWatch Belgium
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text/html

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Unknown

Transfer size
0.02741
OnLine resource
LifeWatch passive acoustic network for Cetacean detection data portal ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )

An HTTP link to download

OnLine resource
Digital Object Identifier (DOI) ( DOI )
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Dataset
Statement

The C-POD stores its data (time, centre frequency, sound pressure level, duration and bandwidth) on an internal Secure Digital (SD) card which can easily be exported into a PC using a card-reader and relevant C-POD Software, CPOD.exe which is supplied by the manufacturer (Chelonia, 2019). CPOD.exe allows for the display, extraction and analysis of data that has been collected. Click trains are identified by pre-defined algorithms and are selected by a built-in classifier (KERNO) which searches for specific click parameters as well as inter click intervals within trains. The KERNO classifier then uses this information to give each train a confidence class – high, medium or low.

File identifier
bmdc.be:dataset:2480 XML
Metadata language
English
Character set
UTF8
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Date stamp
2026-01-20T16:12:57.534Z
Metadata standard name

Geographic information -- Metadata

Metadata standard version

ISO 19115:2003/19139

Point of contact
  Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC)
Vautierstraat 29 , Brussels , 1000 , Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien
https://www.bmdc.be
 
 

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Keywords

European Legislation Identifier
Commission Implementing Regulation (EU) 2023/138 of 21 December 2022 laying down a list of specific high-value datasets and the arrangements for their publication and re-use (Text with EEA relevance)
GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1
environmental monitoring marine mammal noise monitoring

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