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Humpback Whale Sound Production Recorded at SanctSound Site SB02_11

Published by NOAA National Centers for Environmental Information | National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration, Department of Commerce | Catalog Last Checked: May 05, 2026 at 08:38 PM | Dataset Last Updated: June 15, 2023 at 12:00 AM
This record represents humpback whale sound production detected from raw passive acoustic data. The Low Frequency Detection and Classification System (LFDCS) call library for humpback whales contains 9 call types with exemplars taken from song notes spanning 2006-2017 (except 2007). All humpback whale detections with a MD of 3.0 or less were manually screened for the daily presence of true humpback whale vocalizations. A day was then marked as present for humpback whales if one true detection was found within at least three humpback whale vocalizations, occurring over a 10 min window. The 10 min window was deemed sufficient to clearly distinguish putative humpback whale vocalizations from those of other species.These data were recorded at SanctSound Site SB02_11 between August 14, 2020 and September 17, 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, Humpback Whale Sound Production, Stellwagen Bank, SanctSound_SB02_11_humpbackwhale_1d

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  • Sound Monitoring

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  • Global Change Master Directory (GCMD) Keywords

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