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Re: New tech direction

Subject: Re: New tech direction
From: Wild Sanctuary <>
Date: Mon, 27 Jan 2003 17:00:44 -0800
>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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