HesseløOWF_2020-2021_PODdata: Baseline status of harbour porpoise acoustic density in the proposed Hesselø OWF area.
Citation
Sveegaard, Signe; Aarhus University; (2022): Baseline status of harbour porpoise (Phocoena phocoena) acoustic density in the proposed Hesselø Offshore Wind Farm area. https://marineinfo.org/doc/dataset/9189
Contact:
Griffiths, Emily T. Availability:
This dataset is licensed under a Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International License.Description
These data are part of a study commissioned by Energinet Eltransmission A/S, to collect baseline acoustic detection data for harbour porpoise in a proposed offshore wind farm area approx. 30 km off the north coast of Zealand, Denmark. The full baseline report for the Hesselø Offshore Wind Farm (Hesselø OWF), named after an uninhabited island southwest of the area, can be found here: https://ens.dk/media/5429/download. Eight stations cover 13 months of monitoring (December 2020 to December 2021). One station was discontinued in June 2021 due to equipment/data loss presumably from trawling, while a new station was established in a safer location. Each deployment period is sequentially marked A, B, C, and so forth. Porpoises were found to be present year-round, with more detections at the northern stations. There were low levels of detections in summer at the southern stations, indicating this area is not an important breeding area, which is confirmed by the accompanying aerial surveys. Scope Themes: Biology, Biology > Acoustics, Biology > Mammals, Physical > Underwater acoustics Keywords: Marine/Coastal · Acoustic arrays · Acoustic data · Acoustic detection · Acoustic devices · Echolocation · Habitats and biotopes · Marine mammals · Underwater Acoustics · Kattegat · Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) Geographical coverage Kattegat [Marine Regions] Temporal coverage
1 December 2020 - 29 December 2021 Taxonomic coverage
Phocoena phocoena (Linnaeus, 1758) [WoRMS]
Parameters
Acoustic detections Methodology
DPM = detection positive minutes Milliseconds= duration of clicks Number_clicks_filtered = total number of harbour porpoise clicks Number_clicks_total = total number of clicks recorded, regardless of origin Single echolocation click detection Methodology Acoustic detections: Hydrophone underwater recordings Single echolocation click detection: C-POD.exe classifier (Tregenza, 2026) Contributors
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URLs
Dataset status: Completed
Data type: Data
Data origin: Sensor platform
Metadatarecord created: 2026-08-17
Information last updated: 2026-08-17
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