What is DETEKT all about?

DETEKT is an Açores2030 project (ACORES2030-FEDER-01912600) that joins the Institute of Marine Research (IMAR) with @depth — an Azores-based cloud provider — to assess the feasibility of detecting sperm whale sounds on a fibre-optic cable, using the DAS (Distributed Acoustic Sensing) technology.

Know a Little More

Approach

We will use a DAS interrogator to monitor a submarine cable situated between the islands of Faial and São Jorge, in the Azores, over a period of two months.

Controlled experiments with an underwater loudspeaker will reproduce sperm whale clicks with known emission parameters, such as sound source level and distance to the submarine cable.

Multi-sensor archival tags placed on animals in the vicinity of the submarine cable will enable investigating cable sensivity to real-life emissions.

Partners

Beneficiaries

Supporting partners

Team

Azores Whale Lab @OKEANOS-UAç / IMAR

The IMAR/OKEANOS team is composed by Cláudia Oliveira, Mónica A. Silva, Rui Prieto and Sergi Pérez-Jorge. This team has a long track record and experience in sperm whale ecology and bioacoustics, which is essential for fieldwork, data processing and analysis and scientific dissemination.

Cláudia Oliveira

Principal Investigator

Mónica A. Silva

Rui Prieto

Sergi Pérez-Jorge

@depth

@depth team is composed by João Pinelo and Rui Fernandes. This team has extensive experience in Big Data storage, which is essential for the DETEKT project, as DAS technology produces a large amount of data.

João Pinelo

Rui Fernandes

Cornell University

K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics (Cornell University) team is composed by Léa Bouffaut and Holger Klinck. This team is crucial for DETEKT project, as they have vast experience on DAS usage for cetacean monitoring.

Léa Bouffaut

Holger Klinck