ecoSound-web: an open-source, online platform for ecoacoustics
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Abstract
Passive acoustic monitoring of soundscapes and biodiversity produces vast amounts of audio recordings, but the management and analyses of these raw data present technical challenges. A multitude of software solutions exist, but none can fulfil all purposes required for the management, processing, navigation, analysis, and dissemination of acoustic data. The field of ecoacoustics needs a software tool that is free, evolving, and accessible. We take a step in that direction and present ecoSound-web: an open-source, online platform for ecoacoustics designed and built by ecologists and software engineers. ecoSound-web can be used for storing, organising, and sharing soundscape projects, manually creating and peer-reviewing annotations of soniferous animals and phonies, analysing audio in time and frequency, computing alpha acoustic indices, and providing reference sound libraries for different taxa. We present ecoSound-web's features, structure, and compare it with similar software. We describe its operation mode and the workflow for typical use cases such as the sampling of bird and bat communities, the use of a primate call library, and the analysis of phonies and acoustic indices. ecoSound-web is available from: https://github.com/ecomontec/ecoSound-web.
Details
Original language | English |
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Article number | 1224 |
Number of pages | 1 |
Journal | F1000Research |
Volume | 9 |
Publication status | Published - 1 Mar 2023 |
Peer-reviewed | Yes |
External IDs
PubMed | 33274051 |
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unpaywall | 10.12688/f1000research.26369.2 |
Scopus | 85093830386 |
Mendeley | a9629d1c-9822-36ee-a018-53fe34a1e6fc |
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Keywords
- Audio annotation, Automated sound recording, Autonomous recording units, Ecoacoustics, Passive acoustic monitoring, Sound analysis, Soundscape, Spectrogram