DOI: 10.5281/zenodo.13880212
title: Introduction to static monitoring - PAMGuard tutorial dataset

description: Introduction to static monitoring - PAMGuard tutorial dataset

GENERAL INFORMATION

This is a dataset to be used with the PAMGuard tutorial Introduction to static monitoring in PAMGuard. The dataset is from a single autonomous acoustic logger (SoundTrap) recording off the Scottish West Coast and contains a wealth of acoustic data including dolphin whistles and clicks, sonar, baleen whales and porpoises. The tutorial text and other related files can be found on the PAMGuardLearning GitHub page or PAMGuard website.

Year of data collection:

2018

Geographic location of data collection:

Stanton Banks, 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., Macaulay, J., Calderan, S. (2018). Acoustic data from the Scottish west coast recorded with a single-element recording unit doi: 10.5281/zenodo.13880212

DATA & FILE OVERVIEW

Description of dataset

The dataset contains three days of sample recordings from a deployment of an acoustic recording device (SoundTrap ST300) with a battery pack. The SoundTrap was running an on-device click detector on data at 576kHz sample rate and saving 96kHz raw acoustic data. The click detector detects any transient sound and saves a snippet of the waveform. 

The dataset also contains processed data from the entire deployment. There data have been processed in PAMGuard software (www.pamguard.org) for low frequency moans, dolphin whistles, clicks noise and longterm spectral averages. The detection and soundscape data has been saved in  and raw acoustic recordings discarded. 

Files

There are two directories - _audio_ and _viewer_. *audio* contains .sud files whicha re compressed audio and metadata files. They contain raw audio, click detection data and metadata. Data from sud files can be decompressed using SoundTrap Host software (www.oceaninstruments.co.nz). 

The _viewer_ folder contains a PAMGuard database and associated detection files in the _PAMBinary_ folder and sub folders. The database contains PAMGuard settings and some basic metadata. The detection .pgdf files are non human readable files that contain detection data such as detected  clicks, frequency contours of whistles, moans and other tonal sounds and a time series of soundscape metrics. These files can be opened with PAMGuard software (www.pamguard.org), MATLAB (https://github.com/PAMGuard/PAMGuardMatlab) and R (https://github.com/TaikiSan21/PamBinaries). 

The folder structure is as follows

├── audio                                       #Three example days of acoustic recordings│   ├── D2_SB_189411│   ├── D2_SB_189415 │   └── D2_SB_189428├── README.md                                   #The readme file└── viewer                                      #Processed data from a whole deployment    ├── compass_database_D2_stanton.sqlite3     #PAMGuard database    └── PAMBinary       ├── 20180301                             #Folders containing detection files       ├── 20180302       ├── '''

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.