Lifewatch_test: LifeWatch observatory data: performance test of harbour porpoise detection in the Belgian part of the North Sea
Citation
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium; (2025: LifeWatch observatory data: performance test of harbour porpoise detection in the Belgian part of the North Sea. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8975
Contact:
Debusschere, Elisabeth Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This project aims to determine how many F-PODs are needed to represent a station/area in the Belgian part of the North Sea. We are deploying 4-5 F-pods per area midshore and offshore in spring 2025. Scope Themes: Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Mammals, Physical > Underwater acoustics Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Acoustic data · Acoustic detection · Animal tracking · C-PODs · F-PODs · Harbour porpoises · Hydrophones · Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) · Porpoises · Underwater acoustics · Underwater Acoustics · Belgian part of the North Sea · Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) · Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) Geographical coverage Belgian part of the North Sea [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
From 2025 on [In Progress] Taxonomic coverage
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Target species
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Parameter
Single echolocation click detection Methodology
Single echolocation click detection: Hydrophone underwater recordings Contributors
Vlaams Instituut voor de Zee (VLIZ), more, data creator, principal investigator
Related datasets
Project
LifeWatch: Flemish contribution to LifeWatch.eu, more
Funding FWO International research infrastructure
Grant agreement ID I002021N
Dataset status: In Progress
Data type: Data
Data origin: Sensor platform
Metadatarecord created: 2025-12-19
Information last updated: 2026-04-02
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