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
Version
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Keywords
animal tracking
Keywords
acoustic monitoring
Keywords
python
Keywords
bash
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https://github.com/lifewatch/BatSounds/blob/master/LICENSE
Point of contact
  Flanders Marine Institute (VLIZ) - Roeland Develter
 
OnLine resource
BatSounds on Github ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
Topic Category
Species distribution
Service Category
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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