European Ocean Biodiversity Information System
[ report an error in this record ] Print this page
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:
Access data
Archived data
Availability: Creative Commons License 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.
Scope
Themes:
Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity, Biology > Mammals
Keywords:
Marine/Coastal, C-PODs, Data, Echolocation, Harbour porpoises, LifeWatch, Marine mammals, Passive acoustic monitoring, 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
Debusschere, Elisabeth
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
Project
LifeWatch: Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.eu
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
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) (2024). Multipurpose seabed moorings: Developed for coastal dynamic seas. Oceanography Suppl. : In prep.
URLs
Dataset information:
Other:
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Sensor platform
Metadatarecord created: 2017-01-03
Information last updated: 2024-10-15
All data in the Integrated Marine Information System (IMIS) is subject to the VLIZ privacy policy