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IMOS - Animal Tracking Facility - Acoustic Tracking - Quality Controlled Summarised Detections (2007 - ongoing)

Australian Ocean Data Network
Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS)
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Here, raw animal detections collated via the IMOS Australian Animal Acoustic Telemetry Database have been quality-controlled as per Hoenner et al. (2018). This dataset is updated on a six-monthly basis.While the complete quality-controlled dataset is available here (https://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/541d4f15-122a-443d-ab4e-2b5feb08d6a0), this dataset provides a summarised version. All detections have been aggregated with daily resolution at the receiver and animal levels. For animals carrying multi-sensor transmitters (i.e. temperature, pressure or accelerometer), their corresponding mean daily values are also provided at the receiver level. The total number of daily detections in each receiver is also provided for each animal.Maintenance and Update Frequency: biannuallyStatement: Acoustic telemetry generates hundreds of millions of rows of movement data on the animals tracked. This leads to the full datasets being composed by incredibly large files, which can present analytical challenges for some researchers. To overcome this issue, the present dataset comprises a summarised version of the quality-controlled IMOS Australian Animal Acoustic Telemetry Database. By aggregating the unique acoustic detections with daily resolution, it was possible to generate a considerably smaller, and easier to be analysed, version of the entire quality-controlled dataset. The IMOS Animal Tracking Facility has developed a R shiny app that can be used to convert the summarised dataset into the Darwin Core format. This app is available at https://github.com/IMOS-AnimalTracking/IMOS-ATF-to-DC-converter. 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The citation in a list of references is: "IMOS [year-of-data-download], [Title], [data-access-URL], accessed [date-of-access]."

Any users of IMOS data are required to clearly acknowledge the source of the material derived from IMOS in the format: "Data was sourced from Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) – IMOS is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure strategy (NCRIS). The database is a centralised acoustic telemetry data repository maintained by the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility and the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN, https://portal.aodn.org.au/)."

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Since 2007, the Integrated Marine Observing System’s Animal Tracking Facility (formerly known as the Australian Animal Tracking And Monitoring System (AATAMS)) has established a permanent array of acoustic receivers around Australia to detect the movements of tagged marine animals in coastal waters. Simultaneously, the Animal Tracking Facility developed a centralised national database (https://animaltracking.aodn.org.au/) to encourage collaborative research across the Australian research community and provide unprecedented opportunities to monitor broad-scale animal movements. The resulting dataset comprises observations of tagged animals in Australian waters collected by IMOS infrastructure as well as receivers operated by independent research projects and organisations. This dataset constitutes a valuable resource facilitating meta-analysis of animal movement, distributions, and habitat use, and is important for relating species distribution shifts with environmental covariates.

This dataset comprises all available (2007 – ongoing) quality-controlled and publicly accessible animal detections collected across the collaborative, continental IMOS network for a range of aquatic species (fish, sharks, rays, reptiles, and mammals). Here, raw animal detections collated via the IMOS Australian Animal Acoustic Telemetry Database have been quality-controlled as per Hoenner et al. (2018). This dataset is updated on a six-monthly basis.

While the complete quality-controlled dataset is available here (https://catalogue-imos.aodn.org.au/geonetwork/srv/api/records/541d4f15-122a-443d-ab4e-2b5feb08d6a0), this dataset provides a summarised version. All detections have been aggregated with daily resolution at the receiver and animal levels. For animals carrying multi-sensor transmitters (i.e. temperature, pressure or accelerometer), their corresponding mean daily values are also provided at the receiver level. The total number of daily detections in each receiver is also provided for each animal.

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Maintenance and Update Frequency: biannually
Statement: Acoustic telemetry generates hundreds of millions of rows of movement data on the animals tracked. This leads to the full datasets being composed by incredibly large files, which can present analytical challenges for some researchers. To overcome this issue, the present dataset comprises a summarised version of the quality-controlled IMOS Australian Animal Acoustic Telemetry Database. By aggregating the unique acoustic detections with daily resolution, it was possible to generate a considerably smaller, and easier to be analysed, version of the entire quality-controlled dataset. The IMOS Animal Tracking Facility has developed a R shiny app that can be used to convert the summarised dataset into the Darwin Core format. This app is available at https://github.com/IMOS-AnimalTracking/IMOS-ATF-to-DC-converter. For more information about Darwin Core, please visit: https://dwc.tdwg.org/terms/

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Australia’s Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) is enabled by the National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS). It is operated by a consortium of institutions as an unincorporated joint venture, with the University of Tasmania as Lead Agent. I
Credit
Ocean Tracking Network (OTN): in-kind support

Issued: 01 04 2025

Data time period: 08 08 2007 to 03 08 2024

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Subjects
ANIMALS/INVERTEBRATES | ANIMALS/VERTEBRATES | ARTHROPODS | Acoustic Array | Acoustic Curtain | Acoustic Receiver | Acoustic Tag | Acoustic Telemetry Sub-Facility, Integrated Marine Observing System (IMOS) | BIOLOGICAL CLASSIFICATION | BIOSPHERE | Biotic taxonomic identification | Crustaceans | Cephalopods | Countries | Australia | Detection of acoustic tag | EARTH SCIENCE | ECOLOGICAL DYNAMICS | Fish | Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean | Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean | Migratory Rates/routes | Mollusks | Marine Features (Australia) | Bass Strait, TAS/VIC | Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA | Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Mammals | Oceans | Marine Biology | Marine Reptiles | Pressure (measured variable) in the water body exerted by overlying sea water only | Regional Seas | Coral Sea | Regional Seas | Tasman Sea | Regional Seas | Timor Sea | SPECIES/POPULATION INTERACTIONS | States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales | States, Territories (Australia) | Northern Territory | States, Territories (Australia) | Queensland | States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia | States, Territories (Australia) | Tasmania | States, Territories (Australia) | Victoria | States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia | Tags and Tracking Devices | Temperature of the water body | oceans | organism | tracking tags |

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Other Information
(Acoustic Telemetry page on IMOS website)

url : https://imos.org.au/facilities/animaltracking/acoustictelemetry

(Animal Tracking Facility - Data Access URL. This page is a point of access for all publicly accessible data (not quality-controlled) collected by the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility as well as the data entry and upload point for facility members.)

url : https://animaltracking.aodn.org.au/

(Access to quality controlled data files)

url : https://data.aodn.org.au/?prefix=IMOS/AATAMS/acoustic_detections_QC_summary/

(QC methodology paper (Hoenner et al. 2018))

url : https://www.nature.com/articles/sdata2017206

(Link to R shiny that converts the summarised dataset into Darwin Core format)

url : https://github.com/IMOS-AnimalTracking/IMOS-ATF-to-DC-converter

global : a35d02d7-3bd2-40f8-b982-a0e30b64dc40

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