China Creek Hydrophone Deployed 2019-11-26

The Ocean Sonics icListen AF Hydrophone 2534 was deployed on 2019-11-26 at China Creek. China Creek is located in the Alberni Inlet, which is a long, narrow inlet on 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 AF型水听器（Hydrophone）2534于2019年11月26日部署于中国溪水域。中国溪地处阿尔伯尼峡湾（Alberni Inlet）——温哥华岛上一处狭长的沿岸水道。该设备属于水听器，此类设备搭载换能器（transducer），可将水下声波转换为电信号，属于可在数据采集过程中同步处理数据以生成校准后波形数据的声学仪器。水听器通常被应用于海洋哺乳动物发声行为研究、船舶交通监测以及环境背景噪声分析等领域。本次部署将该水听器安装于固定平台之上。此次采集得到的数据已完成归档，并通过加拿大海洋网络（Ocean Networks Canada）的Oceans 2.0数字基础设施对外提供，所有数据均遵循既定规范完成了质量保障流程，并生成了对应的衍生数据产品。