Cpodnetwork: LifeWatch observatory data: acoustic receivers data from the permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea
Citation
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium; (2021): LifeWatch observatory data: acoustic receivers data from the permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea. Marine Data Archive. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/6550
Contact:
Debusschere, Elisabeth Also accessible through: 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, as part of the C-POD moorings, acoustic telemetry receivers are also deployed. This acoustic telemetry receivers are both Innovasea and ThelmaBiotel recivers (mainly) and are completelly Open Protocol (OP) enabled. They listen for tagged fish at 69kHz Scope Themes: Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Ecology - biodiversity Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Acoustic arrays · Acoustic data · Acoustic detection · Acoustic devices · Acoustic Telemetry · Acoustic tracking · Belgium · C-PODs · Fish tracking · F-PODs · LifeWatch · Network Project · Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) · Tracking · Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone · Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) Geographical coverage Belgian Exclusive Economic Zone [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
From 26 September 2018 on [In Progress] Quasi continuous (< 1 min.) Taxonomic coverage
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Parameters
Detections Methodology
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 Detections: Hydrophone underwater recordings Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data creator, principal investigator
Related datasets
Parent dataset: European Tracking Network (ETN) data, more Other relations: LifeWatch observatory data: permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian part of the North Sea, more Lifewatch_extra: LifeWatch observatory data: Additional stations of harbour porpoise detection in the Belgian part of the North Sea, more Lifewatch_test: LifeWatch observatory data: performance test of harbour porpoise detection in the Belgian part of the North Sea, more Project
LifeWatch: Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.eu, more
Funding FWO International research infrastructure
Grant agreement ID I002021N
Publication
Describing this dataset
Calonge, A. et al. (2026). Scalable low-cost seabed landers: The missing link for sustained, integrated, long-term observations in dynamic shallow seas. Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation Online first: 1-9. https://dx.doi.org/10.1002/rse2.70072, more
URLs
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Research: field experiment
Metadatarecord created: 2020-08-10
Information last updated: 2026-04-09
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