Acoustic detections of sperm whales 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.

This is a subset of sperm whale detections from an acoustic detection dataset "Acoustic detections from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001". Sperm whale detection records have an estimated group size while others do not.

Effort tracklines are registered with "Acoustic detections from research cruises in the Med sea, 1994-2001".

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_d	Degree part of Latitude
lat_m	Minute part of Latitude
lat_s	Second part of Latitude
long_d	Degree part of longitude
long_m	Minute part of longitude
long_s	Second part of longitude
latitude	Latitude in decimal degrees
longitude	Longitude in decimal degrees
start_sampling	Flag indicating the start of the visual sampling (blank)
stop_sampling	Flag indicating the end of the acousitc sampling (blank)
sp_obs	Species name recorded
sp_tsn	Taxonomic Serial Number added by OBIS-SEAMAP
obs_count	estimated group size
link_to_sightings	Link to sightings
geom	Geometry field added by OBIS-SEAMAP