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Humpback Whale Sound Production Recorded at SanctSound Site PM02_01

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Metadata Last Checked: January 27, 2026 | Last Modified: 2022-02-08T00:00:00.000+00:00
This record represents humpback whale sound production detected from raw passive acoustic data. All continuous acoustic data were divided into 30 s wav file subsamples and processed using a machine learning humpback whale detector model developed and provided by Google (GoogleAI; Matt Harvey). The presence of humpback whale song is scored by the model and, compared to a choosen threshold, was assigned a binary 0/1 designation indicating absence (0) or presence (1). The percentage of files with humpback whale presence per hour was calculated.These data were recorded at SanctSound Site PM02_01 between October 01, 2019 and May 28, 2020.

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