ECOSS – European Catalogue of Sound Signature
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Partners
- CTN – Asociación Centro Tecnológico Naval y del Mar (ES) – Leader
- SHOM – Service Hydrographique et Océanographique de la Marine (FR)
- ICES – International Council for the Exploration of the Sea (DK)
- SME – Sociedad Anónima de Electrónica Submarina (ES)
- ON AIR S.R.L. (IT)
- SMHI – Swedish Meteorological and Hydrological Institute (SE)
- Witteveen+Bos (NL)
An Open Library collecting the sound tracks of the underwater landscape in the seas
Human activities, if unregulated, are a major source of disturbance to the marine ecosystem. ECOSS – European Catalogue of Sound Signature intends to implement a common Open Source Database containing individual audio tracks for the classification of anthropogenic underwater sounds in the shallow and territorial seas within the EU exclusive economic zones.
The system will be equipped with Artificial Intelligence algorithm packages, the selection and training of which is entrusted to ETT, to handle complex or incomplete data and metadata and improve reliability parameters in sound source attributions for future recordings.
Its system infrastructure will be based on a network of existing databases and additional records organized to minimize any data gaps and provide a single point of access and retrieval of marine data derived from acoustic recordings made in the shallow waters of the EU.
ETT is Technical Project Coordinator and will play a central role in all phases, from the assessment of existing repositories and selection of a common format for storage to the definition and development of the IT system for data storage and dissemination.