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Blue Whale Sound Production Recorded at SanctSound Site OC01_03

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2022-04-15T00:00:00.000+00:00
This record represents blue whale sound production detected from raw passive acoustic data. Blue whale B calls were detected by analysts and logged using Triton's Logger Remora. The following settings were used for manual scanning of spectrograms: Bandwidth = 0-200 Hz; Duration = 1 min; Brightness = 20; Contrast = 250; FFT = 2,000; Overlap = 90%. These data were recorded at SanctSound Site OC01_03 between November 02, 2019 and April 10, 2020.

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