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dc.contributor.authorWebber, Thomas
dc.contributor.authorGillespie, Douglas Michael
dc.contributor.authorLewis, Timothy
dc.contributor.authorGordon, Jonathan
dc.contributor.authorRuchirabha, Tararak
dc.contributor.authorThompson, Kirsten Freja
dc.date.accessioned2022-06-16T14:30:03Z
dc.date.available2022-06-16T14:30:03Z
dc.date.issued2022-06-15
dc.identifier.citationWebber , T , Gillespie , D M , Lewis , T , Gordon , J , Ruchirabha , T & Thompson , K F 2022 , ' Streamlining analysis methods for large acoustic surveys using automatic detectors with operator validation ' , Methods in Ecology and Evolution , vol. Early View . https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13907en
dc.identifier.issn2041-210X
dc.identifier.otherPURE: 279750539
dc.identifier.otherPURE UUID: 21ac5235-0539-423d-a0e4-bb9249f79fde
dc.identifier.otherORCID: /0000-0001-9628-157X/work/114641534
dc.identifier.otherScopus: 85131869571
dc.identifier.otherWOS: 000811362600001
dc.identifier.urihttps://hdl.handle.net/10023/25541
dc.description.abstract1.  Passive acoustic surveys are becoming increasingly popular as a means of surveying for cetaceans and other marine species. These surveys yield large amounts of data, the analysis of which is time consuming and can account for a substantial proportion of the survey budget. Semi-automatic processes enable the bulk of processing to be conducted automatically while allowing analyst time to be reserved for validating and correcting detections and classifications. 2.  Existing modules within the Passive Acoustic Monitoring software PAMGuard were used to process a large (25.4 Terabyte) dataset collected during towed acoustic ship transits. The recently developed ‘Multi-Hypothesis Tracking Click Train Detector’ and the ‘Whistle and Moan Detector’ modules were used to identify occasions within the dataset at which vocalising toothed whales (odontocetes) were likely to be acoustically present. These putative detections were then reviewed by an analyst, with false positives being corrected. Target motion analysis provided a perpendicular distance to odontocete click events enabling the estimation of detection functions for both sperm whales and delphinids. Detected whistles were assigned to the lowest taxonomical level possible using the PAMGuard ‘Whistle Classifier’ module. 3.  After an initial tuning process, this semi-automatic method required 91 hr of an analyst's time to manually review both automatic click train and whistle detections from 1,696 hr of survey data. Use of the ‘Multi-Hypothesis Tracking Click Train Detector’ reduced the amount of data for the analyst to search by 74.5%, while the ‘Whistle and Moan Detector’ reduced data to search by 85.9%. In total, 443 odontocete groups were detected, of which 55 were from sperm whale groups, six were from beaked whales, two were from porpoise and the remaining 380 were identified to the level of delphinid group. An effective survey strip half width of 3,277 and 699 m was estimated for sperm whales and delphinids respectively. 4.  The semi-automatic workflow proved successful, reducing the amount of analyst time required to process the data, significantly reducing overall project costs. The workflow presented here makes use of existing modules within PAMGuard, a freely available and open-source software, readily accessible to acoustic analysts.
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dc.language.isoeng
dc.relation.ispartofMethods in Ecology and Evolutionen
dc.rightsCopyright © 2022 The Authors. Methods in Ecology and Evolution published by John Wiley & Sons Ltd on behalf of British Ecological Society. This is an open access article under the terms of the Creative Commons Attribution License, which permits use, distribution and reproduction in any medium, provided the original work is properly cited.en
dc.subjectAcoustic surveyen
dc.subjectAcousticsen
dc.subjectBioacousticsen
dc.subjectClick train detectoren
dc.subjectOpen-sourceen
dc.subjectPAMGuarden
dc.subjectSemi-automaticen
dc.subjectQH301 Biologyen
dc.subjectDASen
dc.subjectSDG 14 - Life Below Wateren
dc.subject.lccQH301en
dc.titleStreamlining analysis methods for large acoustic surveys using automatic detectors with operator validationen
dc.typeJournal articleen
dc.description.versionPublisher PDFen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Sea Mammal Research Uniten
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Marine Alliance for Science & Technology Scotlanden
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Scottish Oceans Instituteen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. School of Biologyen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Bioacoustics groupen
dc.contributor.institutionUniversity of St Andrews. Sound Tags Groupen
dc.identifier.doihttps://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13907
dc.description.statusPeer revieweden


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