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LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea Citable as data publication Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium; (2023): LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea. Marine Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.14284/639 Previous version view Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium; (2021): LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea. Marine Data Archive. https://doi.org/10.14284/447 Contact: Availability:  This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description As part of the Belgian LifeWatch observatory, a permanent Cetacean passive acoustic network is established in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. The sensor network uses C-PODs (Chelonia Limited) to register the presence of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) in the neighbourhood. Click trains of harbour porpoises are detected and classified using the CPOD software and high and moderate quality click trains are selected. The dataset is published yearly aggregated per hour. In related datasets, described below, aggregated data per minute is available. Lineage Prior to publication data undergo quality control checked which are described in https://github.com/EMODnet/EMODnetBiocheck?tab=readme-ov-file#understanding-the-output Scope Themes: Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Mammals Keywords: Marine/Coastal, Bio-geographical regions, Biota, C-PODs, Data, Echolocation, Environment, Geoscientific Information, Habitats and biotopes, Harbour porpoises, LifeWatch, Marine mammals, Metadata non conformant, Metadata not evaluated, No limitations to public access, Oceans, Passive acoustic monitoring, Sea regions, WGS84 (EPSG:4326), XYZ ASCII, ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS), EurOBIS calculated BBOX, Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) Geographical coverage ANE, Belgium, Belgian Continental Shelf (BCS) Stations [Marine Regions] bpns-Wenduinebank West Coordinates: X: 2,8126; Y: 51,2872 [Lat/long] bpns-VG2 Coordinates: X: 2,802; Y: 51,4325 [Lat/long] bpns-WK12 Coordinates: X: 3,107; Y: 51,4612 [Lat/long] bpns-D1 Coordinates: X: 2,6432; Y: 51,2325 [Lat/long] bpns-Birkenfels Coordinates: X: 2,5338; Y: 51,6493 [Lat/long] bpns-Oostdyck West Coordinates: X: 2,4387; Y: 51,2858 [Lat/long] Lottobuoy Coordinates: X: 2,9833; Y: 51,5667 [Lat/long] Reefballs_cpower Coordinates: X: 2,8126; Y: 51,7044 [Lat/long] bpns_Oostendebank Oost Coordinates: X: 2,8653; Y: 51,2892 [Lat/long] bpns-Gootebank Coordinates: X: 2,8787; Y: 51,4492 [Lat/long] bpns_Reefballs Belwind Coordinates: X: 2,8126; Y: 51,7044 [Lat/long] L S T 420 Coordinates: X: 2,6778; Y: 51,2575 [Lat/long] WK9 Coordinates: X: 3,102; Y: 51,4553 [Lat/long] bpns_Oostendebank Oost Coordinates: X: 2,8653; Y: 51,2892 [Lat/long] Reefballs_cpower Coordinates: X: 2,8653; Y: 51,7044 [Lat/long] EurOBIS calculated BBOX Stations Bounding Box Coordinates: MinLong: 2,3; MinLat: 51,2325 - MaxLong: 3,107; MaxLat: 51,705 [WGS84] Temporal coverage From 2014 on [In Progress] Quasi continuous (< 1 min.) Taxonomic coverage Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS] Parameters Development stage of biological entity specified elsewhere [BODC] DPM = detection positive minutes Milliseconds= duration of clicks Number_clicks_filtered = total number of harbour porpoise clicks Number_clicks_total = total number of clicks recorded, regardless of origin Presence or absence of biological entity specified elsewhere by using 0 or 1 binary classification [BODC] Contributors Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data creator, data manager Related datasets Child datasets: LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea: 2017, more LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea: 2018, more LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea: 2019, more LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea: 2021, more LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea: 2014, more LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea: 2015, more LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea: 2016, more LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea: 2020, more LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea: 2022, more Published in: EurOBIS: European Ocean Biodiversity Information System, more Other relation: Cpodnetwork: LifeWatch observatory data: acoustic receivers data from the permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea, more Project LifeWatch: Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.eu, more Funding FWO Strategic Basic Research (SBO) Publication Describing this dataset Calonge, A. et al. (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, more Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) (2024). Multipurpose seabed moorings: Developed for coastal dynamic seas. Oceanography Suppl. : In prep., more URLs Dataset information: Other: Dataset status: In Progress Data type: Data Data origin: Sensor platform Release date: 2021-10-26 Metadatarecord created: 2017-01-03 Information last updated: 2025-03-26 | ||||
