dd9ef55a-43fd-4aed-a6a0-87d0df859a1a urn:uuid eng UTF-8 nonGeographicDataset nonGeographicDataset 2026-01-11T07:26:25 creation ISO 19115 2016 IMOS - Animal Tracking Facility - Acoustic Receiver Locations dd9ef55a-43fd-4aed-a6a0-87d0df859a1a The Acoustic Telemetry Sub-Facility of the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility (formerly known as the Australian Animal Tracking And Monitoring System (AATAMS)) supports a large network of strategically located acoustic receivers in waters around Australia to detect and track tagged animals. The use of a network of acoustic receivers provides a powerful tool for observing animal movements in Australian coastal and continental shelf ecosystems. An array or network consists of a series of acoustic receivers that are strategically deployed on the sea floor for 1 to 10 years (depending on receiver type and battery life) with the ability to download data from the receivers as often as required. Acoustic Telemetry makes it possible for animals to be monitored over scales of hundreds of metres to thousands of kilometres, informing habitat use, home range size, effectiveness of marine protected areas, refinement of stock assessment and migratory patterns. The Animal Tracking Facility and the Australian Ocean Data Network (AODN) have worked together to create a readily accessible Database. The data search page displays all existing and historical acoustic receiver locations that have contributed to the national telemetry network maintained by the Animal Tracking Facility and collaborators. Only the most recent receiver deployment for each acoustic receiver station is displayed in this dataset collection on the AODN Portal. In this dataset collection, active deployments consist of all deployments deployed and not recovered within a 24 months timeframe. Unrecovered receiver deployments older than 24 months are considered as inactive deployments. The data page is hosted by the AODN and is updated by the Animal Tracking Facility team. Acoustic Array Acoustic Curtain Acoustic Receiver Acoustic Tag Biosphere | Ecological Dynamics | Migratory Rates/routes Countries | Australia Global / Oceans | Indian Ocean Global / Oceans | Pacific Ocean Marine Features (Australia) | Great Australian Bight, SA/WA Oceans | Marine Biology | Fish Regional Seas | Tasman Sea States, Territories (Australia) | New South Wales States, Territories (Australia) | South Australia States, Territories (Australia) | Western Australia Tags and Tracking Devices Acoustic Telemetry page on IMOS website documentDigital HTML Acoustic telemetry mooring design method document documentDigital HTML Ocean_Tracking_Network_Movie.mov documentDigital Ocean Tracking Network promotional movie (quicktime) video/quicktime View and download data though the AODN Portal documentDigital HTML Animal Tracking Database data access URL. This page is a point of access for all publicly accessible passive acoustic telemetry data collected by the IMOS Animal Tracking Facility as well as the data entry and upload point for facility members. documentDigital HTML imos:acoustic_installation_summary_map documentDigital Current Acoustic Receiver Locations WMS imos:acoustic_installation_summary_map documentDigital This OGC WFS service returns filtered geographic information. The returned data is available in multiple formats including CSV. WFS Website for the Integrated Marine Observing System documentDigital HTML Macquarie University staff profile for Rob Harcourt documentDigital HTML Unnamed resource documentDigital License Graphic PNG Unnamed resource documentDigital HTML