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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bmdc.be:dataset:2480

Belgian Marine Data Centre

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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).
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  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)
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  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)
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  LifeWatch Belgium
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  Royal Belgian Institute for Natural Sciences (RBINS), Directorate Natural Environment (OD Nature), Marine Ecology and Management (MARECO)
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  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)
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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.
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  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)
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environmental monitoring marine mammal noise monitoring

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