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Blue Whale Sound Production Recorded at SanctSound Site SB01_12

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Catalog Last Checked: May 05, 2026 at 08:28 PM | Dataset Last Updated: June 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM
This record represents blue whale sound production detected from raw passive acoustic data. The Low Frequency Detection and Classification System (LFDCS) call library for blue whales was built for the data sampled at 120 Hz, and created for A, B, and AB phrases. All detections with a Mahalanobis distance of 5.0 or less were manually screened. Daily presence for blue whales was confirmed if there were three song phrases visible, including at least one true detection. Only accepting detections when three or more phrases occurred ensured our confidence in blue whale song presence. These data were recorded at SanctSound Site SB01_12 between September 17, 2020 and November 22, 2020.

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  • Metadata Landing Page

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  • Passive Acoustic Data Map Viewer

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  • NOAA-Navy Sanctuary Soundscape Monitoring Project, Blue Whale Sound Production, Stellwagen Bank, SanctSound_SB01_12_bluewhale_1d

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  • Sound Monitoring

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  • Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords

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