I assume there are many people working on automatic species recognition, bu=
t I don't know how reliable it is yet. I thought they still required verifi=
cation by humans.
But just the fact that recordings are being made and kept is a good thing. =
Maybe someone with as much resources as Google could do the initial analysi=
s, and make the tagged sections of the recordings available for us to liste=
n to. But imagine the outrage - first they photograph all of our houses, th=
en they make continuous recordings.
It's an interesting field, and it would be good if anyone here with knowled=
ge of it could fill us in on it.
Peter Shute
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> Subject: [Nature Recordists] Article: "New Technology Tracks
> Species by Their Sounds"
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> Interesting article from Nature World News -
> http://www.natureworldnews.com/articles/3001/20130716/new-tech
> nology-tracks-species-sounds.htm
>
> It got me thinking of the potential of this type of
> technology. As each species has unique calls which could be
> interpreted as unique visual patterns on a spectrogram, these
> visuals could be automatically scanned and interpreted to
> produce data on species distribution and abundance, much the
> same way as one can search by image on Google or Tineye.
>
> Snippet - "A new cyber infrastructure developed by scientists
> enables real-time acoustic recording and automatic species
> identification in remote locations of the world, offering
> anyone in the world quick and easy access of not only what
> creatures inhabit a given area, but how many of them there
> are - a key to measuring nature's response to on-going
> climate change and human invasion."
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