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EIA Database

Impacts of marine acoustic technology on the Antarctic environment.

2002
Open Access Report

SCAR ad hoc group on marine acoustic technology and the environment

SCAR (Scientific Committee on Antarctic Research),

Equipment using sound waves to investigate the sea bed and the water column are essential to the understanding of the Antarctic marine environment. At the same...
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Keywords: Antarctic, Marine acoustic technology

Characteristics of Sounds Emitted During High-Resolution Marine Geophysical Surveys

2016
Open Access Report

OCS Study BOEM

Crocker S.E. and Fratantonio, F.D.

Scientific questions regarding the impact of noise in the marine environment have resulted in an increasing number of regulatory requirements and precautionary mitigation strategies to reduce...
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Keywords: Airguns, Beam Pattern, Beamwidth, Boomers, Chirp Profilers, Geophysical Survey Systems, Marine Noise, Multibeam Bathymetric Echosounders, Side-Scan Sonars, Sparkers

Review and Assessment of Underwater Sound Produced from Oil and Gas Sound Activities and Potential Reporting Requirements under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive.

2011
Open Access Report

Genesis Oil and Gas Consultants

Genesis

Underwater sound and the potential impacts on marine life has received increased attention in recent years, with measures to assess underwater sound having been included within...
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Keywords: Marine strategy framework, Oil and gas activities, Underwater sound

Measurement of Sounds Emitted by Certain High-Resolution Geophysical Survey Systems

2018
Pay-walled Peer Reviewed Publication

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Crocker, S.E., Fratantonio, F.D., Hart, P.E., Foster, D.S., O’Brien, T.F., and Labak, S.

Scientific questions regarding the impact of anthropomorphic noise in the marine environment have resulted in an increasing number of regulatory requirements and precautionary mitigation strategies to...
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Keywords: Acoustic measurements, Acoustics, Sea measurements, Sonar measurements, Transducers

Underwater Sound Modelling of Low Energy Geophysical Equipment Operations.

2013
Open Access Report

JASCO Applied Sciences

Zykov, M. M.

An acoustic modeling study was performed to estimate source levels, beam configuration, and sound exposure levels from a set of low energy equipment used in geophysical...
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Keywords: Geophysical equipment, Low energy, Modeling, Underwater

Guidance notes for industry: Guidance notes for oil and gas surveys and shallow drilling

2005
Open Access Report

Department for Trade and Industry

DTI (Department for Trade and Industry),

This Guidance applies if you are proposing any oil and gas survey or shallow drilling activity. The Guidance applies only to oil and gas related activities,...
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Keywords: Guidance, Oil and gas, Shallow drilling