[dataset]: Acoustic Species Detections / Soundscape Metrics

[Kourtney-Burger]

Contact details

[email protected]

Dataset Title

Acoustic Events and Species Detections

Describe your dataset and any specific challenges or blockers you have or anticipate.

Drifting acoustic recorder data including set 'events' (drifts) and beaked whale detections (occurrences). This dataset was developed in last year's workshop and is mostly ready. We would like to finalize the format and use it as a template for other datasets moving forward.

Specific Questions

1. Do we have enough information to be submitted, or are there important things missing? How do we submit?
2. Are there important additional fields we should add that other acoustic people have used?
3. How do these link to the underlying data (that will eventually be stored @ NCEI)?
4. How can we make it clear that these events are recorders on drifting buoys?
5. Related, how can we make it clear that these are passive acoustic data?
6. Confirm that "coordinateUncertaintyInMeters" should be related to maximum potential listening distance if we cannot localize (potentially different for each species)

Link to "raw" Data Files.

CCESTest_Event.csv

CCESTest_Occur.csv

[Kourtney-Burger]

I was able to address all of our questions and data blockers.

In the future would like to work with other passive acoustics people to put together acoustic specific standards (what additional data should be included and determine coordinateUncertainty for different species).

Other than that, we are ready to move forward with adding acoustic specific eMoF tables and prepare to publish through an OBIS node

[AbbyBenson]

Thank you for these updates Kourtney! Happy to help with eMoF table and publishing if you need. Don't hesitate to reach out. We have ideas for how to help people in future workshops collaborate with others that are working on datasets collected using similar methods so we hope to implement that for the next workshop.

[github-actions[bot]]

Thank you for identifying this dataset for mobilization. The workshop hosts wanted to check in. Is there anything you need help with in order to mobilize this dataset to OBIS? If you would like assistance from an OBIS node you can find node contacts listed here.

[MathewBiddle]

FYI https://github.com/ioos/bio_data_guide/blob/main/datasets/SanctSound/README.md