DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.14989667
title: Batch Processing in PAMGuard - Tutorial Dataset

description: GENERAL INFORMATION



This is a dataset to be used with the PAMGuard tutorial Batch Processing. The data are from five different SoundTrap underwater acoustic recorders deployed off the West Coast of Scotland and comprise a single day of data (11 July, 2019) for each recorder from the much larger Compass Project dataset. The recordings contain several encounters with cetacean species including harbour porpoise and unidentified dolphin species.  

The data are intended primarily for completing the PAMGuard tutorial, for other uses of the data, please contact the data authors.


 



Geographic location of data collection:



Hebridean islands, Scotland

 





Funding sources that supported the collection of the data:



The COMPASS project has been supported by the EU’s INTERREG VA Programme, managed by the Special EU Programmes Body. The views and opinions expressed in this document do not necessarily reflect those of the European Commission or the Special EU Programmes Body (SEUPB).





 

Recommended citation for this dataset:



Risch, D., Quer, S., Edwards, E., Beck, S., Gillespie, D., Calderan, S. (2018). Acoustic data from the Scottish west coast recorded with a single-element recording unit (Scottish Association for Marine Science) doi: 10.5281/zenodo.14989668








 





Sharing and access



These data are open source under Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International. This means that these data can be used in other tutorials as long as the original authors are credited. Using these data for scientific purposes requires the permission of the authors.
description: 2.1 Description of dataset



The dataset contains one day of data, recorded at five different locations, using autonomous acoustic recording devices (SoundTrap ST300). The SoundTraps were running an on-device click detector on data sampled at 576kHz sample rate and also saving decimated 96kHz raw acoustic data. The .sud datafiles contain both the continuous 96kHz acoustic data, and the sound snippets from the click detector interleaved in a single file. The files can be read directly with PAMGuard, or can be unpacked with SoundTrap Host software from Oean Instruments.

The devices were all operating on a 20 minute on / 40 minute off duty cycle.

The dataset also contains processed data from the five devices. These data have been processed in PAMGuard software (V2.02.16) for low frequency moans, dolphin whistles, clicks, noise, and long-term spectral averages. The PAMGuard configuration file used for this processing is provided, as is a spreadsheet of calibration values and locations of each recorder.




Site
Serial Number
Latitude
Longitude
High Gain*




Hyskeir
335564854
57.03633
-6.75458
174.1


Shiants
336068655
57.87612
-6.27268
173.0


StantonBank
738725892
56.09678
-8.02278
172.5


StoerHead
336097327
58.25750
-5.53861
172.9


Tolsta
335564853
58.39470
-6.01246
172.7




*High Gain is the clipping level of each recorder in dB re 1 micro Pascal





2.2 Files



soundtrapdata.zip contains five sub directories, one for each of the SoundTrap raw data.

PAMGuardOutput.zip contains processed data comprising a sqlite database and a folder of binary files for each site.

CompassMetaData.csv is the calibration and location data for each device.

compass_settings_static_logger.psfx is the PAMGuard configuration file used to process the data.

The folder structure is as follows

├── soundtrapdata.zip                  #Five example days of acoustic recordings
│   ├── Hyskier                        #Folder of files for the Hyskier site
│   ├── ShiantIsles                    # etc.
│   ├── StantonBank
│   ├── StoerHead
│   ├── Tolsta
├── README.md                          #This readme file
├── CompassMetaData.csv                #Calibration and location data for each device
├── compass_settings_static_logger.psfx #PAMGuard configuration for data processing
└── PAMGuardOutput.zip                 #Processed data from the five deployments
│   ├── Hyskier_binary                 #Folder of binary file output for the Hyskier site
│   ├── ShiantIsles_binary             # etc.
│   ├── StantonBank_binary 
│   ├── StoerHead_binary 
│   ├── Tolsta_binary 
│   ├── Hyskier_database.sqlite3       # SQLite database output for the Hyskier site
│   ├── ShiantIsles_database.sqlite3   # etc.
│   ├── StantonBank_database.sqlite3 
│   ├── StoerHead_database.sqlite3 
│   └── Tolsta_database.sqlite3