DCLDE 2018 Datasets

DCLDE Workshops are intended for exchanging information that advances our understanding of acoustic methods to detect, classify, locate, track, count, and monitor marine mammals in their natural environment. The goal is to encourage interdisciplinary approaches to solve real-world problems related to the study of marine mammals and the effects of human activities. These DCLDE 2018 workshop datasets were provided by the Scripps Institution of Oceanography. They consist of acoustic recordings from multiple deployments of high-frequency acoustic recording packages deployed in the Western North Atlantic (US EEZ) and Gulf of Mexico. Separate sets of development data are provided for mysticetes and odontocetes. The mysticete data have been decimated to 1 kHz bandwidth (2 kHz sample rate) and the odontocete data have 100 kHz of bandwidth (200 kHz sample rate). Data were selected to cover multiple seasons and locations while providing high species diversity and call counts.