Lifewatch_extra: LifeWatch observatory data: Additional stations of harbour porpoise detection in the Belgian part of the North Sea
Citation
Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Belgium; (2025: LifeWatch observatory data: Additional stations of harbour porpoise detection in the Belgian part of the North Sea. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/8976
Contact:
Debusschere, Elisabeth Availability:
 This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
This project aims to include all additional stations in the Belgian part of the North sea equipped with F-PODs and or Soundtraps that are not part of the permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network 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 · Network Project · Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) · Porpoises · Soundtraps · Underwater acoustics · Underwater Acoustics · Underwater raw acoustic files · 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
click train detections translated to acoustic presence absence data per minute Methodology
click train detections translated to acoustic presence absence data per minute: 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 (Partly) included in: MARCOBOLO - MARine COastal BiOdiversity Long-term Observations. Observation during the MarcoBolo campaign of May 2025 in the Belgian part of the North Sea, 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 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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