OGS Composite Data Center
SWIM - Recovery and measurement survey
The seas and oceans provide resources for a range of industrial and recreational activities, from commercial shipping to recreational boating, and from resource exploration to wind energy. All these rapidly expanding activities generate sounds, often very loud, that travel long distances through water. The growth of the ocean economy means that human-generated noise is becoming dominant in marine soundscapes worldwide. It has been observed that this can be very harmful to marine life, but the extent of the damage has not been quantified. Scientific knowledge of underwater noise pollution is growing rapidly but remains limited; further research is needed to provide policymakers with essential guidelines for the sustainable exploitation of marine resources. Future noise pollution models will need to include precise information on specific noise sources, the propagation of elastic waves in marine environments, and the impact of noise on individual marine species.
SWIM helps us understand how new wind farms could affect toothed whales, depending on their characteristics (such as fixed or floating turbines) and their location.
The plan for the Recovery and Measurement Survey was to deploy two bottom recorders near the wind turbine blades, specifically at wind turbine number 2 and wind turbine number 6. For wind turbine number 2, the bottom recorder was positioned one metre from the turbine, while for wind turbine number 6, the sensor was placed five metres away. The purpose of measuring at different distances was to empirically detect the dispersion of noise following its propagation.
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Date (Creation)
- 2023-12-01
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Citation identifier
- https://geonetwork.ogs.it/f9f0ab24-869a-4d85-acc4-fec2964bf215
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Purpose
- Assessing the impact of offshore wind turbines on marine mammals in the Adriatic sea
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- 5000
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Oceans
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Environment
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- 2024-08-19 2025-07-31
- GCMD - Locations
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- ITALY
- GCMD - Providers
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- IT/OGS
- Keywords (Project)
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- PRIN (Programma di Rilevante Interesse Nazionale) PNRR (Piano Nazionale di Ripresa e Resilienza) – PRIN 2022 PNRR M4C2 Ministero dell’università e della ricerca
- NASA Thesaurus
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- acoustic detection
- W3C DCAT Themes for the SeaDataNet EDMED Catalogue
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- Electrical conductivity of the water column
- Acoustic noise in the water column
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- No conditions apply to access and use
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Language
- English
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UTF8
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- WAV
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OnLine resource
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SWIM - Recovery and measurement survey
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Title
- COMMISSION REGULATION (EU) No 1089/2010 of 23 November 2010 implementing Directive 2007/2/EC of the European Parliament and of the Council as regards interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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Date (Publication)
- 2010-12-08
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Explanation
- This data set is conformant with the INSPIRE Implementing Rules for the interoperability of spatial data sets and services
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- true
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Statement
- Assessing the impact of offshore wind turbines on marine mammals in the Adriatic sea
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- WGS84
Metadata
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Metadata identifier
- urn:uuid/f9f0ab24-869a-4d85-acc4-fec2964bf215
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Language
- English
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UTF8
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Date info (Revision)
- 2026-02-24T13:00:43
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Date info (Creation)
- 2024-05-31
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Title
- ISO 19115-3
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