Tethys: A workbench and database for passive acoustic metadata

This project proposes a community standard for the representation of passive acoustic metadata along with a freely available software implementation. Our target audience is the marine mammal community, but the concepts are general and are applicable to a wide variety of taxa. In addition, we address the need to analyze acoustic metadata in the context of other environmental and biological parameters. The implementation provides interfaces to access a wide variety of data available from external services, such solar and lunar rise/set times, sea surface temperature, chlorophyll A, etc., thus permitting extensive data exploration in a workbench environment.

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