Autonomous surface vehicle-towed passive acoustic data collected during R/V Pelican cruise PE17-23 in the northern Gulf of Mexico from 2017-06-08 to 2017-06-17

Passive acoustic monitoring from autonomous surface vehicles was conducted from 2017-06-08 to 2017-06-17 as part of the 2017 LADC-GEMM (Littoral Acoustic Demonstration Center - Gulf Ecological Monitoring and Modeling) Gulf of Mexico Experiment (R/V Pelican PE17-23). A two-element hydrophone array was towed behind the autonomous surface vehicle (ASV). Raw data were collected at 500 kHz, in 16-bit WAV-format files. Concurrent CTD and GPS data were collected by the ASV during acoustic surveys. The dataset consists of a dataset file inventory, Automatic Identification System (AIS) data recorded from the R/V Pelican, GPS data from the towed hydrophone vehicle and the R/V Pelican, a listing of the depth of the hydrophones on the towed array, calibration data for the towed hydrophone array, the acoustic recordings, recording metadata, a listing of pertinent time/position/measurement rate information for each recording, a PDF description of the project design, and ArcGIS and QGIS files for preparing the planned survey map. The data are organized in directories by data type, with an accompanying descriptive document indicating parameters and units.