TY - CHAP
TI - Soundscape and Noise Exposure Monitoring in a Marine Protected Area Using Shipping Data and Time-Lapse Footage
AU - Merchant, N
AU - Pirotta, E
AU - Barton, T
AU - Thompson, P
T2 - The Effects of Noise on Aquatic Life II
AB - We review recent work that developed new techniques for underwater noise assessment that integrate acoustic monitoring with automatic identification system (AIS) shipping data and time-lapse video, meteorological, and tidal data. Two sites were studied within the Moray Firth Special Area of Conservation (SAC) for bottlenose dolphins, where increased shipping traffic is expected from construction of offshore wind farms outside the SAC. Noise exposure varied markedly between the sites, and natural and anthropogenic contributions were characterized using multiple data sources. At one site, AIS-operating vessels accounted for total cumulative sound exposure (0.1–10 kHz), suggesting that noise modeling using the AIS would be feasible.
CY - New York
DA - 2016/01//
PY - 2016
VL - 875
SP - 705
EP - 712
PB - Springer
UR - https://link.springer.com/chapter/10.1007/978-1-4939-2981-8_85
U1 - University of Aberdeen
LA - English
KW - Wind Energy
KW - Noise
KW - Marine Mammals
KW - Cetaceans
ER -