Italia-Croatia

To enhance the management and solution planning for the protection of the Adriatic Sea ecosystems against human-generated underwater noise pollution, expanding the current monitoring system in terms of inclusion of new areas; introduction of new monitoring techniques; monitoring of additional noise sources; extension of the monitoring temporal window to business-as-usual; provision of new digital tools for the integrated cross-border management and protection and preservation of biodiversity.

• implementation and expanding of the underwater sound monitoring network to assess the noise pollution, by setting up monitoring stations along the whole Adriatic basin, also in shallow water and deep sea.
•  collection of processed underwater sound data that will be made public and open source, as it was done in the case of SOUNDSCAPE, fully available to the international stakeholder community.
• setting up of the first Adriatic cetacean echolocation click library will be the first shared library of its kind for the Adriatic Sea and will represent a valuable reference source for all other cetacean research in the Mediterranean Sea.
• creation of a phone app for small vessel localization to be used during Noise Clean-up events and other public awareness communication objectives.
• estabilishment of an Atlas of monthly and annual statistical maps of whole Adriatic Sea soundscape, potentially available to different stakeholders.