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DECAF - AUTEC Beaked Whales - Multiple Sensors - Dtag
Citation
Marques, T.A., L. Thomas, J. Ward, N. DiMarzio, P. L. Tyack. 2009. Estimating cetacean population density using fixed passive acoustic sensors: An example with Blainville’s beaked whales. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America. 125(4): 1982-1994. https://marineinfo.org/id/dataset/3513
Contact: Ward, Jessica

Availability: Creative Commons License This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.

Notes: Only data aggregated per 1-degree cell are available through OBIS. The non-aggregated data are available through the OBIS-SEAMAP Portal

Description
Data on echolocation of Blainville's beaked whale recorded at AUTEC during a 6-day period in spring 2005. more

This archive contains data on echolocation clicks of Blainville's beaked whale (Mesoplodon densirostris) recorded at AUTEC during a 6-day period in spring 2005. The data were used in estimating M. densirostris density as documented in the paper Marques et al. (2009). There are data files containing click counts per minute per hydrophone, files containing numbers of false positive detections from a manual analysis, and files giving information about georeferenced tracks of tagged whales and associated vocalization timings. Each record represents the georeferenced echolocation click of a single tagged whale. Only regular clicks from the tagged whale are included. Time zone is GMT. Additional attributes include pitch, roll, and heading of the tagged whale and data on presence or absence of detections of each click on nearby seafloor hydrophones. Data on the presence or absence of DTAG clicks on nearby seafloor hydrophones are available at http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/722. Automated and manually verified click detections from 82 seafloor hydrophones in a related dataset are available at http://seamap.env.duke.edu/dataset/677. Original data can be downloaded at http://www.creem.st-and.ac.uk/decaf/decaf-data-files under Case Study 3: Beaked whale data Data type = telemetry location Dataset credit = Density Estimation of Cetaceans from passive Acoustic Fixed sensors (DECAF) (http://www.creem.st-and.ac.uk/decaf/)

Scope
Themes:
Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, A, North Atlantic

Geographical coverage
A, North Atlantic [Marine Regions]

Temporal coverage
23 October 2006 - 6 September 2007

Contributor
Naval Undersea Warfare (NUWC), more

Related datasets
Published in:
OBIS-SEAMAP: Spatial Ecological Analysis of Megavertebrate Populations, more
Other relations:
DECAF - AUTEC Beaked whales - Multiple Sensors - Click counts, more
DECAF - AUTEC Beaked Whales - Multiple Sensors - DTag Seafloor array presence, more
DECAF - AUTEC Beaked Whales - Single Sensor case study, more

Publication
Based on this dataset
Marques, T.A. et al. (2009). Estimating cetacean population density using fixed passive acoustic sensors: an example with Blainville’s beaked whales. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 125(4): 1982–1994. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.3089590, more

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Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field survey
Metadatarecord created: 2012-11-23
Information last updated: 2012-11-23
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