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2025
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| Online Access: | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41374681/ |
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| author | Galanos, Vassilis Trygonis, Vasilis Mazaris, Antonios D Katsanevakis, Stelios |
| author_facet | Galanos, Vassilis Trygonis, Vasilis Mazaris, Antonios D Katsanevakis, Stelios Galanos, Vassilis Trygonis, Vasilis Mazaris, Antonios D Katsanevakis, Stelios |
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| contents | A Low-Cost Passive Acoustic Toolkit for Underwater Recordings. Galanos, Vassilis Trygonis, Vasilis Mazaris, Antonios D Katsanevakis, Stelios Passive acoustic monitoring is a key tool for studying underwater soundscapes and assessing anthropogenic impacts, yet the high cost of hydrophones limits large-scale deployment and citizen science participation. We present the design, construction, and field evaluation of a low-cost hydrophone unit integrated into an acoustic toolkit. The hydrophone, built from off-the-shelf components at a cost of ~20 €, was paired with a commercially available handheld recorder, resulting in a complete system priced at ~50 €. Four field experiments in Greek coastal waters validated hydrophone performance across a marine-protected area, commercial port, aquaculture site, and coastal reef. Recordings were compared with those from a calibrated scientific hydrophone (SNAP, Loggerhead Instruments). Results showed that the low-cost hydrophones were mechanically robust and consistently detected most anthropogenic sounds also identified by the reference instrument, though their performance was poor at low frequencies ( |
| format | Artículo científico |
| id | pubmed_41374681 |
| institution | PubMed |
| language | en |
| publishDate | 2025 |
| publisher | Sensors (Basel, Switzerland) |
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| spellingShingle | A Low-Cost Passive Acoustic Toolkit for Underwater Recordings. Galanos, Vassilis Trygonis, Vasilis Mazaris, Antonios D Katsanevakis, Stelios A Low-Cost Passive Acoustic Toolkit for Underwater Recordings. Galanos, Vassilis Trygonis, Vasilis Mazaris, Antonios D Katsanevakis, Stelios Passive acoustic monitoring is a key tool for studying underwater soundscapes and assessing anthropogenic impacts, yet the high cost of hydrophones limits large-scale deployment and citizen science participation. We present the design, construction, and field evaluation of a low-cost hydrophone unit integrated into an acoustic toolkit. The hydrophone, built from off-the-shelf components at a cost of ~20 €, was paired with a commercially available handheld recorder, resulting in a complete system priced at ~50 €. Four field experiments in Greek coastal waters validated hydrophone performance across a marine-protected area, commercial port, aquaculture site, and coastal reef. Recordings were compared with those from a calibrated scientific hydrophone (SNAP, Loggerhead Instruments). Results showed that the low-cost hydrophones were mechanically robust and consistently detected most anthropogenic sounds also identified by the reference instrument, though their performance was poor at low frequencies ( |
| title | A Low-Cost Passive Acoustic Toolkit for Underwater Recordings. |
| url | https://pubmed.ncbi.nlm.nih.gov/41374681/ |