TY - JOUR
TI - Integration of passive acoustic monitoring data into OBIS-SEAMAP, a global biogeographic database, to advance spatially-explicit ecological assessments
AU - Fujioka, E
AU - Soldevilla, M
AU - Read, A
AU - Halpin, P
T2 - Ecological Informatics
AB - We successfully developed an extension of the OBIS-SEAMAP database, a global biogeographic database specializing in marine mammals, seabirds and sea turtles, to integrate passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) data with other commonly collected data types (i.e. line-transect visual sightings, animal telemetry, and photo-identification). As part of this effort, we made significant improvements in mapping and visualization tools for PAM data, including spatially and temporally interactive summary statistics, diel plots, temporal effort representation, and the unique rendering of PAM data to distinguish them from other data types. In this paper, we summarize technical challenges we overcame, report the methodologies and implementation of the integration, and conduct case studies using visual sightings and PAM data from bowhead whales and Risso's dolphins to demonstrate how the integrated database facilitates in-depth ecological assessments that form the foundation for spatially-explicit conservation efforts.
DA - 2014/05//
PY - 2014
VL - 21
SP - 59
EP - 73
UR - https://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S1574954113001258
DO - 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2013.12.004
LA - English
KW - Seabirds
KW - Reptiles
KW - Marine Mammals
KW - Birds
ER -