Acoustic detections from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001

Claudio Fossati and Giulia Romè, CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, University of Pavia

CIBRA Center for Bioacoustics, Univ. of Pavia, organizes research cruises in the Med sea since 1994. Visual and acoustic contacts (1994 - 2001) are available on OBIS-SEAMAP, while acoustic recordings are stored in our Sound library and available upon request.

Data were collected during cetacean research campaigns, acoustic software and hardware development campaigns.

Tracks of the cruises are coarse in June and Sept 1994, June 1995. From 1996 on, tracks are finer.
Data from visual contacts are registered in a separate dataset "Visual contacts from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001".

The dataset has been updated over time as outlined below. Each entry includes the version number, release date, type of change, and a short description.

Overview

Attributes described below represent those in the original dataset provided by the provider.
All attributes are included in the downloadable file (CSV or ESRI File Geodatabase) for "Complete Set of Dataset".

Attributes in dataset

Attribute (table column)	Description
oid	Unique ID number (generated by OBIS-SEAMAP)
row_id	Row ID
obs_date	Date of observation
obs_time	Start time (local time zone)
lat_degree	Degree part of Latitude
lat_minute	Minute part of Latitude
lat_second	Second part of Latitude
long_degree	Degree part of longitude
long_minite	Minute part of longitude
long_second	Second part of longitude
latitude	Latitude in decimal degrees
longitude	Longitude in decimal degrees
start_sampling	Flag indicating the start of the acoustic sampling
end_sampling	Flag indicating the end of the acousitc sampling
sp_obs	Species name recorded
sp_tsn	ITIS Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_count	Numeric count of animals (blank)
link_to_sighting	Link to sightings
effort_status	Effort status
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP