Advances in Underwater Acoustics for Sustainable Ocean Monitoring
A Special Issue of Sustainability (ISSN 2071-1050) belonging to the section "Environmental Sustainability and Applications".
Deadline for manuscript submissions: 30 November 2027 | Viewed by 29
Editor
Interests: underwater acoustics; bioacoustics; fisheries acoustics; passive acoustic monitoring; underwater soundscape
Special Issue Information
Dear Colleagues,
The ocean is increasingly affected by climate change, anthropogenic activities, and expanding marine development, highlighting the need for effective and sustainable approaches to observing, managing, and conserving marine environments. Underwater acoustics provides a powerful and non-invasive means of continuously monitoring the ocean over broad spatial and temporal scales, offering valuable information on marine organisms, biological resources, underwater soundscapes, environmental variability, and human activities.
Recent advances in acoustic sensors, passive and active acoustic monitoring, signal processing, autonomous observation platforms, numerical modeling, and artificial intelligence are rapidly expanding the capabilities of underwater acoustic observation. These developments provide new opportunities not only for long-term monitoring of marine ecosystems but also for assessing anthropogenic underwater noise, evaluating the environmental impacts of offshore development, supporting sustainable fisheries and aquaculture, and detecting ecological responses to climate and environmental change.
This Special Issue aims to present recent advances in underwater acoustic technologies and their applications to sustainable ocean monitoring, environmental assessment, and marine ecosystem management. We particularly welcome interdisciplinary studies integrating acoustic measurements with oceanographic observations, biological information, numerical modeling, environmental assessment, and emerging data-driven approaches.
Topics of interest include, but are not limited to, the following:
- Passive and active acoustic monitoring;
- Ocean bioacoustics and biological sound monitoring;
- Ocean soundscape and underwater noise assessment;
- Ocean acoustic propagation and environmental variability;
- Acoustic detection, classification, and localization;
- AI and machine learning for underwater acoustic data;
- Autonomous and unmanned acoustic observation systems;
- Long-term monitoring of marine ecosystems and environmental change;
- Acoustic monitoring for marine biodiversity conservation;
- Sustainable fisheries and aquaculture applications;
- Sustainable applications of underwater acoustics for ocean observation and management.
We welcome original research articles, reviews, and methodological studies that advance underwater acoustic technologies and demonstrate their potential to support sustainable observation, conservation, assessment, and management of the marine environment.
I look forward to receiving your contributions.
Prof. Dr. Hansoo Kim
Guest Editor
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Keywords
- underwater acoustics
- ocean acoustic monitoring
- underwater noise
- acoustic propagation
- marine environmental monitoring
- sustainable ocean observation
- ocean soundscape
- sustainable ocean observation
- marine biodiversity
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