Ecoacoustic surveys follow a standardized recording-analysis workflow

Evidence

The ecoacoustics methodology is achieved using a multistep workflow comprising recording, database management, signal analysis, quantification, and statistics, as recently argued by Sueur and Farina (2015). Several different strategies can be applied to capture sound from species or from physical phenomena (e.g., Pijanowski et al., 2011a,b; Kasten et al., 2012). For instance, sound data can be collected using sophisticated microphone capsules (Monacchi, 2014) that are able to collect acoustic information from different directions and in separate channels or by placing arrays of cheap microphones that capture the acoustic information at close distance, facilitating the link of acoustic cues with environmental conditions (Farina et al., 2014). Due to the high variability of the acoustic phenomena, self-replication in space and time of recordings is always recommended. — Bernie Krause and Almo Farina, Using Ecoacoustic Methods to Survey the…, 77

Categorization

• XREF: The multistep workflow (record, database, quantify, statistically analyze, replicate) is exactly the methodological backbone the Soundscape Ethnography course will need to mirror in its own field protocol. — connects to: Comparable ecoacoustics findings demand synchronized global recording standards. — Bernie Krause and Almo Farina, Using Ecoacoustic Methods to Survey the…, 95; Acoustic monitoring detects behavior changes before abundance statistics do. — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 1416; Only Seewave and SoundscapeMeter offer free soundscape-specific metric algorithms — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology: Principles,…, 2070
• SEED: Could feed an essay on how deep-listening ethnography can graft onto this quantitative passive-acoustic workflow — complementary epistemologies, subjective vs automated listening.

Related

• Comparable ecoacoustics findings demand synchronized global recording standards. (similarity 0.85)
• Only Seewave and SoundscapeMeter offer free soundscape-specific metric algorithms (similarity 0.83)
• Four main procedures organize the soundscape research field (similarity 0.80)
• Acoustic monitoring detects behavior changes before abundance statistics do. (similarity 0.78)

Broader Connections

• Acoustic monitoring detects behavior changes before abundance statistics do. #expands (0.80) — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 1416
• Only Seewave and SoundscapeMeter offer free soundscape-specific metric algorithms #expands (0.75) — Almo Farina, Soundscape Ecology, 2070