Name: LifeWatch observatory data: Permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian Part of the North Sea
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Permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. The network records echolocation clicks of harbour porpoises (Phocoena phocoena) and dolphins. https://www.lifewatch.be/en/cetacean-passive-acoustic-network

Citation

Debusschere E, Mortelmans J (2025). LifeWatch observatory data: Permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian Part of the North Sea. Version 1.10. No organisation. Samplingevent dataset. https://ipt.vliz.be/upload/resource?r=lifewatch_cpod&v=1.10

Published

November 25, 2025 at 09:36

First registration

November 12, 2021 at 01:17

License

This work is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution (CC-BY) 4.0 License

URL

http://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/resource?r=lifewatch_cpod

Archive

https://ipt.vliz.be/eurobis/archive.do?r=lifewatch_cpod

Contacts

Elisabeth Debusschere
Elisabeth Debusschere

Jonas Mortelmans
Flanders Marine Institute

449,119

total submitted occurrences

449,119

accepted occurrences

1,796,478

measurements and facts

taxa

species

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Field	Missing	Invalid
coordinateUncertaintyInMeters	449,119		100.0%

Quality flags

The OBIS data quality flags are documented at https://github.com/iobis/obis-qc.

Flag	Dropped	Records
MIN_DEPTH_EXCEEDS_MAX		2,876	0.6%

LifeWatch observatory data: Permanent Cetacean passive acoustic sensor network in the Belgian Part of the North Sea

Taxa

Missing and invalid fields

Quality flags

Measurement types

DNA derived data