There is a manifest shortage of audio databases available to underwater acoustics
researchers. With the aim of palliating this situation, ShipsEar, a database of underwater
recordings of ship and boat sounds, has been made available to the research community at
http://atlanttic. uvigo. es/underwaternoise/. The database is currently composed of 90
records representing sounds from 11 vessel types. It includes detailed information on
technical aspects of the recordings and environmental and other conditions during …