Testimonials
 SAMBAH - Static Acoustic Monitoring of the Baltic Sea
Harbour Porpoise
"Chelonia
Ltd has, through the development of the T-POD and the successor the
C-POD, created a whole new field of conservation research.
Through the
deployment of non-invasive PODs, data on Odontocete presence and
echolocation characteristics now give new insights on animal behaviour
and ecology and also make it possible to estimate absolute abundance
even in low-density populations.
Not only is Chelonia pushing for a
continuous development of PAM technology, but also provides
unprecedented support to on-going projects, in spite of the fact that
the company is small, with limited personal resources.
In the SAMBAH
project, based on two year continuous deployment of 304 C-PODs (see
www.sambah.org), we have stretched
this support to the limit, and are amazed by the capacity and readiness
of Nick Tregenza and his team to help us out, to fix bugs and provide
new features that made it possible for us to handle the enormous dataset
– corresponding to approximately 400 years of data - that has been
generated by SAMBAH.
This support has been of paramount importance for
the successful completion of the project. SAMBAH could recently report
reliable estimates of absolute abundance of the Baltic Sea harbour
porpoise population and distribution maps indicating previously
completely unknown potential breeding grounds on the shallow banks in
central Baltic Sea."
   Mats Amundin, PhD
International coordinator of SAMBAH
Research
director at Kolmarden Wildlife Park, Sweden
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