Odontecete Protocols

FPOD Odontocete Detector

Odontocete detector for Narrowband High Frequency (NBHF) clicks produced by dolphins and porpoises recorded on FPODs

  • Makara detector code: FPOD_ODONTOCETE
  • Link to analysis protocol page

DFO Beaked Whale Detector

Beaked whale detector developed at Fisheries and Oceans Canada; written by Wilfried Beslin, adapted from Baumann-Pickering et al. 2013

  • Makara detector code: MATLAB_BEAKED_FIXED
  • Link to analysis protocol page

Banter for Beaked Whales

Open-source machine learning BANTER acoustic classification of beaked whale echolocation pulses.

Rankin, S., Sakai, T., Archer, F. I., Barlow, J., Cholewiak, D., DeAngelis, A. I., … & Trickey, J. S. (2024). Open-source machine learning BANTER acoustic classification of beaked whale echolocation pulses. Ecological Informatics, 80, 102511.

  • Makara detector code: R_BANTER_ML (double check this)
  • Research compendium
  • Github

Alba Convolutional Neural Network Detector

Beaked whale CNN detector written by Alba Solsona Berga

  • Makara detector code: MATLAB_BEAKED_FIXED_ALBA_CNN
  • Link to analysis protocol page

PAMGuard Odontocete Click Detector

Detector used for all odontocete clicks; see PAMguard’s Help documentation for details


PAMGuard’s Bearing-Time Display: used to identify odontocete clicks. Clicks appear as colorful dots, with those coming in from ahead of the array spanning angles 0-90, and those coming in from behind the array as 90-180.

PAMGuard Odontocete and Baleen Whistle and Moan Detector

Basic tonal detector that can be used for odontocetes and baleen whales

  • Makara detector code: PAMGUARD_WHISTLE_MOAN
  • Link to analysis protocol page