Patricia Bay Hydrophone Deployed 2018-10-05

The Ocean Sonics icListen HF Hydrophone 1349 was deployed on 2018-10-05 at Patricia Bay. Patricia Bay is located in the Saanich Inlet, on the southern tip of Vancouver Island. This device is a Hydrophone. Hydrophones are devices containing transducers that convert underwater sound waves into electrical signals. They are acoustic instruments that can process data while they are being collected to produce calibrated waveform data. Hydrophones are typically used to study vocalizations of marine mammals, ship traffic and ambient noise. It was deployed on a fixed platform. Data from this deployment were archived and made available through Ocean Networks Canada's Oceans 2.0 digital infrastructure, with quality assurance and derived data products following established practices.海洋声学（Ocean Sonics）公司的icListen HF型水听器1349于2018年10月5日部署于帕特里夏湾（Patricia Bay）。帕特里夏湾地处温哥华岛南端的萨尼奇湾（Saanich Inlet）内。水听器（Hydrophone）是一类内置换能器（Transducer）的声学仪器，可将水下声波转换为电信号，且能够在数据采集过程中同步处理数据，以生成经过校准的波形数据。该类设备通常被应用于海洋哺乳动物发声研究、船舶交通监测与环境噪声分析领域。本次部署采用固定式平台搭载该设备，采集所得数据已完成归档，并通过加拿大海洋网络（Ocean Networks Canada）的Oceans 2.0数字基础设施对外共享；所有数据的质量管控与衍生数据产品的生成均遵循既定行业规范。