When Big Data Becomes a Curse: Spatial Heterogeneity and the Limits of Learning from Passive Acoustic Monitoring Data
Passive Acoustic Monitoring produces large archives whose recordings are clustered by deployment, season, station identifier, and acquisition configuration. We analyze 908,072 AIS-labeled 679-second recordings from 38 deployments, 20 Atlantic Canadian station identifiers, and 21 receiver positions. The AIS-contact prio...