bmdc.be:dataset:2480 English UTF-8 Dataset Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Direction opérationnelle Milieux naturels (DO Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN), Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu (OD Natuur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Königliches Belgisches Institut für Naturwissenschaften (KBIN), Operationelle Direktion Natürliche Umwelt (OD Natur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Rue Vautier 29 Vautierstraat 29 Brussel Brussels Brussel Bruxelles Brüssel 1000 Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien bmdc@naturalsciences.be https://www.bmdc.be http Point of contact 2026-04-29T15:29:45.103Z Geographic information -- Metadata ISO 19115:2003/19139 http://www.opengis.net/def/crs/EPSG/0/4258 EPSG LifeWatch Belgium Cetacean Passive Acoustic Monitoring Network, contribution by MARECO 2021-01-07T18:34:14Z Creation 2021-01-11T16:56:37Z Revision 2026-04-29T15:29:45.103Z Publication Digital Object Identifier 2016-05-19 https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2480 Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) http://www.vliz.be/en/imis?module=dataset&dasid=5531 Belgian Marine Data Centre bmdc.be:dataset:2480 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). 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. Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB) Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN) Königliches Belgisches Institut für Naturwissenschaften (KBIN) Natur) Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Rue Vautier 29 Vautierstraat 29 Brussel Brussels Brussel Bruxelles Brüssel 1000 Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien info@naturalsciences.be https://www.naturalsciences.be http Publisher Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Direction opérationnelle Milieux naturels (DO Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN), Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu (OD Natuur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Königliches Belgisches Institut für Naturwissenschaften (KBIN), Operationelle Direktion Natürliche Umwelt (OD Natur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Rue Vautier 29 Vautierstraat 29 Brussel Brussels Brussel Bruxelles Brüssel 1000 Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien bmdc@naturalsciences.be https://www.bmdc.be http Custodian LifeWatch Belgium info@lifewatch.be Distributor 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 odnature@naturalsciences.be https://www.naturalsciences.be/en/science/do/533 http Author Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS) Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB) Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN) Königliches Belgisches Institut für Naturwissenschaften (KBIN) Natur) Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Rue Vautier 29 Vautierstraat 29 Brussel Brussels Brussel Bruxelles Brüssel 1000 Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien info@naturalsciences.be https://www.naturalsciences.be http Owner Species distribution 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) Theme European Legislation Identifier marine mammal Meeressäugetier marine mammal mammifère marin marien zoogdier noise monitoring Lärmüberwachung noise monitoring suveillance du bruit geluidsmeting environmental monitoring Umweltüberwachung environmental monitoring surveillance de l'environnement milieubewaking Theme GEMET - Concepts, version 4.2.1 2021-06-01 Publication 4.2.1 Other restrictions https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/ Other restrictions No limitations on public access. No limitations on public access. Geen beperkingen op openbare toegang. Pas de restrictions concernant l'accès public. Öffentliche Zugang nicht beschränkt. No conditions apply to use. No conditions apply to use. Geen voorwaarden in verband met gebruik. Aucune condition ne s'applique à l'utilisation. Es gelten keine Bedingungen zum Nutzung. Unclassified Text table English oceans true 2.0 4.0 51.0 52.0 true Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ) Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone 2014-06-23 text/html Unknown Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Royal Belgian Institute of Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Institut royal des Sciences naturelles de Belgique (IRSNB), Direction opérationnelle Milieux naturels (DO Nature), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Koninklijk Belgisch Instituut voor Natuurwetenschappen (KBIN), Operationele Directie Natuurlijk Milieu (OD Natuur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Königliches Belgisches Institut für Naturwissenschaften (KBIN), Operationelle Direktion Natürliche Umwelt (OD Natur), Belgian Marine Data Centre (BMDC) Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Vautierstraat 29 Rue Vautier 29 Vautierstraat 29 Brussel Brussels Brussel Bruxelles Brüssel 1000 Belgium Belgium Belgique België Belgien bmdc@naturalsciences.be https://www.bmdc.be http Custodian text/html Unknown http://www.vliz.be/en/imis?module=dataset&dasid=5531 WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link LifeWatch observatory data: passive acoustic network (CPOD) for Cetacean detection An HTTP link to view information Information LifeWatch Belgium info@lifewatch.be Distributor text/html Unknown 0.02741 https://rshiny.lifewatch.be/cpod-data/ WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link LifeWatch passive acoustic network for Cetacean detection data portal An HTTP link to download Download https://doi.org/10.24417/bmdc.be:dataset:2480 DOI Digital Object Identifier (DOI) Dataset 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.