BatSounds scripts

Acoustic monitoring is a powerful technique for learning about the ecology of bats. Bat recorders provide continuous registration of bat activity by recording echolocation calls of passing bats. Since the bat calls are highly reliable taxonomic features, the acquired data can be used to estimate diversity and relative abundance of the occurring species. The generated data provides a basis for ecological and behavioral research of the bat species occurring in our coastal and marine areas.



BatSounds is an open source repository that contains scripts to work with BatCorder data and BatCorder devices. The repository contains two scripts that are useful to process and send the audio data retrieved by ecoObs Batcorders ( https://ecoobs.com/):



- Raw_to_wav is a python script that adds a header to raw audio files from the BatCorder so it can more easily be used by different softwares as a wav file.



- beaglebone_batcorder is a bash-script to run on a Beaglebone Black minicomputer connected to a BatCorder. It copies the data from the BatCorder daily to its own SD card and sends it to an FTP server over Ethernet. It allows for remote data transfer and memory management of the BatCorder.



LifeWatch Belgium has currently four ecoObs BatCorders installed. You can find more information here: https://lifewatch.be/en/sensor-network-bat-detection

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Date ( Creation)
2019-10-16
Date ( Revision)
2020-09-07
Status
Completed
Point of contact
  Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) - Roeland Develter

Keywords

remote sensing
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data management
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animal tracking
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Bioacoustics
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python
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bash
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Biomonitoring
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License
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https://github.com/lifewatch/BatSounds/blob/master/LICENSE

OnLine resource
BatSounds on Github (

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OnLine resource
Info page (

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Topic Category
Species distribution
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data processing
Service Language
eng
Service TRL
TRL 9 – Actual system proven in operational environment
Service Helpdesk

https://github.com/lifewatch/BatSounds/issues

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