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

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

Contacts:

Elisabeth Debusschere
Elisabeth Debusschere

Jonas Mortelmans
Flanders Marine Institute

449,119

occurrence records

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