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MARCOBOLO - MARine COastal BiOdiversity Long-term Observations. Observation during the MarcoBolo campaign of May 2025 in the Belgian part of the North Sea [dasid=9027] show more
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Filename WBAT_SN284143_MarcoBolo_AP-bpns-Grafton_summer_2025_processed.zip
Direct link https://mda.vliz.be/directlink.php?fid=VLIZ_00001214_6a54fd26377a7914132885
Datatype In situ Instrument data
MIMEtype application/zip
Authors Debusschere, E.; Muñiz, C.; Cuyx, B.; Aubach, J.; Conings, B.; Calonge, A.
Dataprovider Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Marine Observation Center
Email Dataprovider elisabeth.debusschere@vliz.be
Conditions of use CCBY
Creationdate 2026-07-14
Submitter Calonge Arienne
Submit date 2026-07-13 14:58:46
Archived by Calonge Arienne
Archive date 2026-07-14 09:14:27
Path MARCOBOLO/WBAT/
Start year 2025
End year 2025
Summary Deployment of echosounder (Simrad WBAT 70 kHz CW and 200 kHz FM) in the BPNS, fixed on a seabed lander, during the MARCO-BOLO biodiversity campaign. Detected acoustic regions were processed using Echoview.
Description The zipped file contains the mission plan (.mpl), the Echoview calibration file (.ECS), the metadata sheet (.CSV) and the processed exports from Echoview (.CSV).
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Metadata
Content
Content
Acoustics
Materials and methods
Instrument type
Wideband Autonomous Transceiver (WBAT)
Instrument
Split-beam echosounder
Deployment
Seabed lander
Serial number
284143
Sampling frequency
Measurements
Parameters
Acoustic backscatter in the water column
Geographic scope
Sea area(s)
Belgian EEZ (MRGID3293)
Location
Belgian part of the North Sea
Station
bpns-Grafton
Latitude
51.40645
Longitude
2.8185
Coordinate reference
Z Reference
Temporal scope
First date
2025-05-18
Last date
2025-08-12
Additional information
Other info
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| MARCOBOLO - MARine COastal BiOdiversity Long-term Observations. Observation during the MarcoBolo campaign of May 2025 in the Belgian part of the North Sea [dasid=9027] show more |
File properties
| Filename | WBAT_SN284143_MarcoBolo_AP-bpns-Grafton_summer_2025_processed.zip |
|---|---|
| Direct link | https://mda.vliz.be/directlink.php?fid=VLIZ_00001214_6a54fd26377a7914132885 |
| Datatype | In situ Instrument data |
| MIMEtype | application/zip |
| Authors | Debusschere, E.; Muñiz, C.; Cuyx, B.; Aubach, J.; Conings, B.; Calonge, A. |
| Dataprovider | Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ), Marine Observation Center |
| Email Dataprovider | elisabeth.debusschere@vliz.be |
| Conditions of use | CCBY |
| Creationdate | 2026-07-14 |
| Submitter | Calonge Arienne |
| Submit date | 2026-07-13 14:58:46 |
| Archived by | Calonge Arienne |
| Archive date | 2026-07-14 09:14:27 |
| Path | MARCOBOLO/WBAT/ |
| Start year | 2025 |
| End year | 2025 |
| Summary | Deployment of echosounder (Simrad WBAT 70 kHz CW and 200 kHz FM) in the BPNS, fixed on a seabed lander, during the MARCO-BOLO biodiversity campaign. Detected acoustic regions were processed using Echoview. |
| Description | The zipped file contains the mission plan (.mpl), the Echoview calibration file (.ECS), the metadata sheet (.CSV) and the processed exports from Echoview (.CSV). |
| Changes |
Metadata
| Content | |
| Content | Acoustics |
|---|---|
| Materials and methods | |
| Instrument type | Wideband Autonomous Transceiver (WBAT) |
| Instrument | Split-beam echosounder |
| Deployment | Seabed lander |
| Serial number | 284143 |
| Sampling frequency | |
| Measurements | |
| Parameters | Acoustic backscatter in the water column |
| Geographic scope | |
| Sea area(s) | Belgian EEZ (MRGID3293) |
| Location | Belgian part of the North Sea |
| Station | bpns-Grafton |
| Latitude | 51.40645 |
| Longitude | 2.8185 |
| Coordinate reference | |
| Z Reference | |
| Temporal scope | |
| First date | 2025-05-18 |
| Last date | 2025-08-12 |
| Additional information | |
| Other info | |
| Link file |


