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PAMGuard FOR RESEARCH
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a mitigation tool for the oil and gas industry to monitor and detect marine mammals
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Density Estimation for Cetaceans from Acoustic Fixed Sensors (DECAF)
Fixed installation PAM systems allow industry to acoustically monitor marine mammals over a given area for extended periods (years to decades). When these data are analysed in real time they can affect decisions during ongoing E&P operations and possibly reduce some risks
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DEVELOPMENT OF TRANSFER FUNCTIONS FOR THE POPULATION CONSEQUENCES OF ACOUSTIC DISTURBANCE MODEL (PCAD)
The Population Consequences of Acoustic Disturbance Model (PCAD) was developed with the US National Academies of Sciences National Resource Council to evaluate change in marine life behaviour
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PAMGuard FOR RESEARCH
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) is a mitigation tool for the oil and gas industry to monitor and detect marine mammals
INFORMING THE INDUSTRY
An important aspect of the JIP’s role is ensuring the industry stays abreast of up to date technology and methods in order to effectively manage offshore day-to-day operations. The JIP has funded research into technologies and methods that influence the way the industry operates. For example, our work to develop PAMGuard (which helps us listen to the sounds marine animals make) has virtually replaced all previous animal detection software. Our continued research programme aims to further refine our understanding and improve the tools and techniques industry use.
CUTTING EDGE TECHNOLOGY
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Development Of Transfer Functions For The Population Consequences Of Acoustic Disturbance Model (PCAD)
The Population Consequences of Acoustic Disturbance Model (PCAD) was developed with the US National Academies of Sciences National Resource Council to evaluate change in marine life behaviour
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Tags
Tags are essential in allowing the industry to understand marine life behaviour, habitat use, migration patterns, and reactions
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Density Estimation For Cetaceans From Acoustic Fixed Sensors (DECAF)
Fixed installation PAM systems allow industry to acoustically monitor marine mammals over a given area for extended periods (years to decades). When these data are analysed in real time they can affect decisions during ongoing E&P operations and possibly reduce some risks
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IOGP Sound & Marine – A Quick Guide To PAMGuard
Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) helps detection by picking up the distinctive vocalisations that some marine species produce. The work of JIP has ensure that PAM Guard has virtually replaced all previous animal detection software.
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Behavioural Response Of Australian Humpback Whales To Seismic Surveys (BRAHSS)
The JIP commissioned a study to understand the behavioural impact of seismic surveys on migrating humpback whales
RELATED CONTENT
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Part A: Biological Significance Workshop
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Part B: Literature And Models Available
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Part C: Transfer Functions For The PCAD Model
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Development Of An Active Source For Detecting Whales In Airgun Safety Zones
Visual detection of marine mammals is limited by wave height, light level, storms, and fog. Passive Acoustic Monitoring (PAM) is not so limited but cannot detect the presence of silent animals.
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PAM: PAMGuard III And IV Software Development And PAMGuard Industry Field Trial 2008
Regulatory authorities encourage or stipulate the use of passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) prior to and during start-up. Real-time localisation and tracking of vocalising marine mammals is needed to trigger the array shut-downs required by permits
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PAM Software Development For PAMGuard
Software that can detect animals, classify them to species, and locate them in three dimensions (called DCL software) is essential to PAMGuard. The Programme funded three projects to improve PAMGuard’s DCL capabilities.
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PAM: PAMGuard Maintenance And Support 2008-13
A basic PAMGuard Support Function has been provided since 2009 to correct software problems, help build user confidence, and assist commercial users of PAM to ‘get started’ with PAMGuard. This basic support is critical if PAMGuard software is to become a standard user interface for PAM.
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Integration And Testing Of An Acoustic Vector Sensor Into 3-D Tracking PAM Array To Resolve Left-Right Ambiguities
Conventional towed PAM systems using single hydrophone arrays cannot discriminate animal calls arriving from the right side of a ship from those arriving from the left. Ship manoeuvres can resolve this so-called right-left ambiguity but are not feasible during seismic surveys.
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Collection And Analysis Of Existing Marine Mammal Observer (MMO) Data
Properly-collected MMO and other data can help reveal the distribution of marine mammals and their reaction to anthropogenic activities. Current monitoring protocols for MMOs vary among projects, types of operation, the operator’s requirements, and the host country’s regulatory requirements.
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Density Estimation For Cetaceans From Passive Acoustic Fixed Sensors (DECAF)
Fixed installation PAM systems allow industry to acoustically monitor marine mammals over a given area for extended periods (years to decades). When these data are analysed in real time they can affect decisions during ongoing E&P operations and possibly reduce some risks.
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A Review And Inventory Of Fixed Installation Passive Acoustic Monitoring Methods And Technologies
The Programme has discussed methods for assessing the effect of industry operations on animals from initial exploration through production to eventual structure removal, a so-called Life-of-the-Field approach that may last decades.
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Animal Tagging Technology Development – Workshop
Industry cannot get adequate data on behavioural and physiological responses to sound because of limits in the instruments now available. Tag attachment problems prevent the study of some species, and reduce instrument deployment times in others.
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Animal Tagging Technology Development – Testing Of Developed GPS/Time-Depth Tags On Sperm Whales In The Sea Of Cortez
Animal-borne instruments used in a previous study on the effects of airguns on whale behaviour (the 2002-2008, $9M, Sperm Whale Seismic Study in the Gulf of Mexico) could not measure both diving behaviour and exact location.
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Unmanned Aerial Survey (UAS) Review
A literature review, internet searches, and communications with personnel working with unmanned aerial systems (UAS) were used to identify the capabilities of UAS throughout the world.