The Dominica dataset ...

The Dominica database is used to evaluate and compare the performance of sperm whale click detectors. The database consists of 3 hours of recordings of sperm whale echolocation clicks and 4 hours of sound recordings containing delphinid clicks and transients from different sound sources, but no sper...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author: Gubnitsky, Guy
Format: Dataset
Language:unknown
Published: IEEE DataPort 2024
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Online Access:https://dx.doi.org/10.21227/078x-0h20
https://ieee-dataport.org/documents/dominica-dataset
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Summary:The Dominica database is used to evaluate and compare the performance of sperm whale click detectors. The database consists of 3 hours of recordings of sperm whale echolocation clicks and 4 hours of sound recordings containing delphinid clicks and transients from different sound sources, but no sperm whale clicks. Data were collected in September 2023 approximately 2 km west off the coast of Dominica Island in the eastern Caribbean using a home-built recorder equipped with an M36 Geospectrum hydrophone with near-constant sensitivity in the frequency range of 2 kHz to 20 kHz and a sampling rate of 192 kHz. The recordings lasted 5 days, with the recorder deployed at a depth of 20 m and anchored to a free-drifting buoy on the surface. The water depth was about 1,600 m. ...