In summary, this report includes a review of three main types of fixed PAM systems and the detection/classification algorithms that can be used to efficiently process...
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A literature review, internet searches, and communications with personnel working with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) were used to identify the capabilities of UAS throughout the world....
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Passive acoustic detection is being increasingly used to monitor visually cryptic cetaceans such as Blainville’s beaked whales (Mesoplodon densirostris) that may be especially sensitive to underwater...
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Impact pile-driving generates loud underwater anthropogenic sounds, and is routinely conducted in harbours around the world. Surprisingly few studies of these sounds and their propagation are...
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QUIETMED – Joint programme on noise (D11) for the implementation of the Second Cycle of the MSFD in the Mediterranean Sea
This document is the Deliverable “Recommendations to Member States to set up the national registers of impulsive noise according to criterion D11C1 of the Commission Decision...
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European Marine Strategy Framework Directive Good Environmental Status (MSFD-GES)
There are many kinds of anthropogenic energy that human activities introduce into the marine environment including sound, light and other electromagnetic fields, heat and radioactive energy....
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At this moment, there are no international standards for monitoring ambient noise in the ocean. Such standards would require consensus on a number of topics: (i)...
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For the further development of the UK’s Natura 2000 network, a network of nature protection areas established under the EU Birds and Habitats Directive, identifying discrete...
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Observations undertaken during 201 seismic surveys in UK and adjacent waters were analysed to examine effects on cetaceans. Sighting rates, distance from the airguns and orientation...
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