Acoustic whale tracking log of the 2013 Antarctic Blue Whale Voyage to the Southern Ocean

During the 2013 Antarctic Blue Whale Voyage Acousticians noted all whale calls and other acoustic events that were detected during real-time monitoring in a Sonobuoy Event Log. A written summary of the event log was recorded during data collection at approximately 15 minute intervals, and this summary comprises the Whale Tracking Log.


- The acoustician on-duty recorded the average bearings or locations of each calling whale/group every 15 minutes in the written Whale Tracking Log.

- Entries in the written Sonobuoy Tracking Log (on the bench in the acoustics workstation) also include total number of different whales heard in that 15 minute interval.

- If multiple whales/groups were detected, then the acoustician on-duty, in consultation with the lead acoustician and/or voyage management designateded one of the whales the 'target' whale, and attempted to encounter this target first.

- When targeting a whale/group, the acoustician on-duty continued to track all other whales/groups in the area as these tracked whales/groups may become the next target after obtaining concluding with the current target.


Date: (UTC) written only at top of datasheet


Time: (UTC) on the hour, 15 past, half past, and 15 to.


Track: Unique identifier for each whale/group tracked in the past 15 minutes.

Each track will have:


Location: Either an average bearing from a sonobuoy (eg 220 degrees from SB18) or a Lat/Lon from the most recent triangulation


Notes: What is the vessel action with respect to this tracked whale/group? (eg. Is this the current or previous 'target'? Are we presently photographing this whale? Did we finish photographing the whale?) Has the whale gone silent? Has this track crossed paths with another?

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Identification info

Alternate title
Acoustic whale tracking log of the 2013 Antarctic Blue Whale Voyage to the Southern Ocean
Date (Publication)
2017-09-11
Edition
1
Citation identifier
Dataset DOI

Title
Information and documentation - Digital object identifier system
Date (Publication)
2012-04-23
Citation identifier
ISO 26324:2012

Citation identifier
doi:10.4225/15/59b60b9f93bde

Originator

Double, M. and Miller, B.S.

Publisher

Australian Antarctic Data Centre

Principal investigator

DOUBLE, MIKE
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Ausrtralia

Principal investigator

MILLER, BRIAN SETH
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Collaborator

MILLER, BRIAN SETH
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia
Name
CAASM Metadata
Website
https://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4102_AcousticTrackingLog2013

Purpose
The purpose of the whale tracking log was to assist the acoustician and voyage management in steering the ship towards acoustically detected groups of Antarctic blue whales, and keeping track of groups of vocalising whales.
Status
Completed

Custodian

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Spatial resolution

Vertical sampling distance
0

Spatial resolution

Spatial resolution
20

Spatial resolution

Vertical sampling distance
20
Temporal resolution
PT1S
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Oceans

Extent

N
S
E
W


Extent

Description
Temporal Coverage

Temporal extent

TimePeriod
2013-01-31 2013-03-16

Extent

Description
Vertical Extent - Altitude

Vertical element

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
0
Identifier
urn:x-ogc:def:cs:EPSG:6499
Name
Vertical CS. Axis: height (H). Orientation: up. UoM: m.
Identifier
urn:x-ogc:def:axis:EPSG:114
Name
height

Extent

Description
Vertical Extent - Depth

Vertical element

Minimum value
0
Maximum value
300
Identifier
urn:x-ogc:def:cs:EPSG:6498
Name
Vertical CS. Axis: depth (D). Orientation: down. UoM: m.
Identifier
urn:x-ogc:def:axis:EPSG:113
Name
depth
Title
Cruise report of the 2013 Antarctic blue whale voyage of the Southern Ocean Research Partnership
Date (Publication)
2013
Citation identifier
SC65a/SH/21

Author

Double, M.C. et al.
Other citation details
Report SC65a/SH/21 submitted to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission. Jeju Island, Republic of Korea.
Title
Antarctic Blue Whale Voyage 2013
Date (Publication)
2013

Author

Barlow, J. et al.

Publisher

Unknown
Kingston
Name
Science report
Title
Long-range acoustic tracking of Antarctic blue whales.
Date (Publication)
2013
Citation identifier
SC/65a/SH18

Author

Miller, B.S. et al.
Page
1-17
Other citation details
Report submitted to the Scientific Committee of the International Whaling Commission.
Website
http://events.iwc.int/index.php/scientific/SC65a/paper/view/393

Title
Validating the reliability of passive acoustic localisation: a novel method for encountering rare and remote Antarctic blue whales.
Date (Publication)
2015
Citation identifier
26

Author

Miller, B.S. et al.
Name
Endangered Species Research
Issue identification
3
Page
257-269
Website
http://www.int-res.com/abstracts/esr/v26/n3/p257-269/

NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > BALEEN WHALES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION > ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES > MAMMALS > CETACEANS > TOOTHED WHALES
  • EARTH SCIENCE > OCEANS > OCEAN ACOUSTICS > AMBIENT NOISE
Keywords
  • PASSIVE ACOUSTIC LOCALISATION
  • DIFAR
  • FV AMALTAL EXPLORER
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • SONOBUOYS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • SHIPS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • AMD/AU
  • AMD
  • CEOS
NASA/GCMD Earth Science Keywords
  • GEOGRAPHIC REGION > POLAR
  • OCEAN > SOUTHERN OCEAN
  • CONTINENT > ANTARCTICA

Resource constraints

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This metadata record is publicly available.

Resource constraints

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Other constraints
These data are publicly available for download from the provided URL.

Resource constraints

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Linkage
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Title
Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)
Website
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Legal code for Creative Commons by Attribution 4.0 International license

Use constraints
licence
Other constraints
This dataset has been collected under the International Whaling Commission’s (IWC) Southern Ocean Research Partnership (SORP). The IWC-SORP ethos is one of open collaboration, communication and data sharing. The Data User will acknowledge the use of the IWC SORP dataset by the following statement: Data provided by the International Whaling Commission’s Southern Ocean Research Partnership were all based upon non-lethal samples collected under a protocol approved by the Australian Antarctic Program Animal Ethics Committee (AAPAEC). These data were provided by the Partnership for the purpose of collaborative investigation. This data set conforms to the CCBY Attribution License (http://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/). Please follow instructions listed in the citation reference provided at http://data.aad.gov.au/aadc/metadata/citation.cfm?entry_id=AAS_4102_AcousticTrackingLog2013 when using these data.
Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Distribution Information

Distributor

Distributor

AU/AADC > Australian Antarctic Data Centre, Australia - AADC, DATA OFFICER (DATA CENTER CONTACT)
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Distributor

Fees
Free
Planned available datetime
2017-09-11T00:00:00
Units of distribution
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Transfer size
6
Distribution format
  • csv, pdf, Excel, Word

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Resource lineage

Statement
The whale tracking log contains only information that was recorded by acousticians during the 2013 Antarctic Blue Whale Voyage. This information may include data summaries as well as assumptions and interpretations of acoustic location data by the acousticians on-duty during the voyage. Data have not been corrected or post-processed in any way. Thus these logs represent the state of real-time acoustic localisation during the 2013 Voyage.
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Maintenance and update frequency
As needed
Maintenance note
2017-09-07 - record created by Brian Miller.

Metadata

Metadata identifier
string/AAS_4102_AcousticTrackingLog2013

Language
English
Character encoding
UTF8

Author

MILLER, BRIAN SETH
Australian Antarctic Division
203 Channel Highway
Kingston
Tasmania
7050
Australia

Sponsor

Australian Antarctic Division

Owner

AADC
Title
Parent Metadata Record
Citation identifier
AAS_4102_2013_Antarctic_Blue_Whale_Voyage

Type of resource

Resource scope
Dataset

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
c9ca9062-9b52-4e29-b113-24db27ab6ce6

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Date (Last Revision)
2021-11-17T12:22:29

Identifier

Description
metadata.extraction_date

Alternative metadata reference

Title
gov.nasa.gsfc.gcmd
Citation identifier
8.6

Metadata linkage
http://data.aad.gov.au/metadata/records/AAS_4102_AcousticTrackingLog2013

Point of truth for the metadata record

Date info (Creation)
2017-09-07T00:00:00
Date info (Last Update)
2017-09-07

Metadata standard

Title
ISO 19115-3
Edition
2014
Other citation details
Version 1
Title
DIF to ISO 19115-1 Profile
 
 

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