>Wild Sanctuary wrote:
>> Data crunching is a real issue, Walt. The two firms doing the noise
>> studies for the National Park Service (Wyle and HMM&H) have typically
>> collected 22, 000 - 25,000 hrs PER PARK. Analyze that!
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>That's about three years continuous recording. Though I assume it's
>probably more like lots of sites for shorter periods.
Yes.
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>> Stuart Gage, head of the Envirosonics lab at Mich. State Univ. has
>> launched a system that analyzes the audio data automatically.
>> http://www.cevl.msu.edu
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>Presumably just certain factors of the sound. Do you know if he's trying
>for species recognition?
Not yet. But we're working on that, too.
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>At least it's not preserved samples in bottles like it can be in
>Oceanography. The ships are expensive to run, so must be continuously
>used, so the sampling never stops. Those bottles require someone to sit
>with a microscope and tweezers counting what's found.
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>Walt
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