Guidance
Monitoring Guidance for Underwater Noise in European Seas
Monitoring Guidance for Underwater Noise in European Seas
- OPRED
- Guidance
- EnvironmentNoise and Vibration
- Underwater environmental noise
- Environmental monitoring and quality assurance
- Marine waters
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Summary
Guidance for Member States developing underwater sound monitoring under the Marine Strategy Framework Directive. It covers regional impulsive-sound registers and ambient-noise measurement combined with validated modelling. Specifications address hydrophone deployment, recorder performance, traceable calibration, data retention and arithmetic averaging, while acknowledging uncertainty in ecological interpretation and population-level effects.
Classifications: Underwater environmental noise.
Classifications: Environmental monitoring and quality assurance.
Classifications: Marine waters.
Summary
Provides methods for monitoring underwater noise in European seas.
Themes: environment, noise and vibration.