title: Characterizing Marine Soundscapes.
abstract: The study of marine soundscapes is becoming widespread and the amount of data collected is increasing rapidly. Data owners (typically academia, industry, government, and defense) are negotiating data sharing and generating potential for data syntheses, comparative studies, analyses of trends, and large-scale and long-term acoustic ecology research. A problem is the lack of standards and commonly agreed protocols for the recording of marine soundscapes, data analysis, and reporting that make a synthesis and comparison of results difficult. We provide a brief overview of the components in a marine soundscape, the hard- and software tools for recording and analyzing marine soundscapes, and common reporting formats.
authors.affiliation: Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6102, Australia. c.erbe@curtin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Christine
authors.initials: C
authors.lastname: Erbe
authors.affiliation: Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6102, Australia. r.mccauley@curtin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Robert
authors.initials: R
authors.lastname: McCauley
authors.affiliation: Centre for Marine Science and Technology, Curtin University, Perth, WA, 6102, Australia. a.gavrilov@curtin.edu.au.
authors.forename: Alexander
authors.initials: A
authors.lastname: Gavrilov
mesh_terms: D000162:Acoustics; D000818:Animals; D012623:Seawater; D013016:Sound; D013018:Sound Spectrography; D013637:Tape Recording; D014904:Western Australia
keywords: Noise budget; Signal classification; Signal detection; Sound recording