Australia's continental-scale acoustic tracking database and its automated quality control process.

ABSTRACT: Our ability to predict species responses to environmental changes relies on accurate records of animal movement patterns. Continental-scale acoustic telemetry networks are increasingly being established worldwide, producing large volumes of information-rich geospatial data. During the last decade, the Integrated Marine Observing System's Animal Tracking Facility (IMOS ATF) established a permanent array of acoustic receivers around Australia. Simultaneously, IMOS developed a centralised national database to foster collaborative research across the user community and quantify individual behaviour across a broad range of taxa. Here we present the database and quality control procedures developed to collate 49.6 million valid detections from 1891 receiving stations. This dataset consists of de

SUBMITTER: Hoenner X 

PROVIDER: S-EPMC5789868 | biostudies-literature | 2018 Jan

REPOSITORIES: biostudies-literature