ecoSound-web: an open-source, online platform for ecoacoustics [version 2; peer review: 3 approved]
Passive acoustic monitoring of soundscapes and biodiversity produces vast amounts of audio recordings, but the management and analysis of these raw data present technical challenges. A multitude of software solutions exist, but none can fulfil all purposes required for the management, processing, na...
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| Published in: | F1000 research 2020, Vol.9, p.1224-1224 |
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| Main Authors: | , , , , , , |
| Format: | Article |
| Language: | eng |
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| Summary: | Passive acoustic monitoring of soundscapes and biodiversity produces vast amounts of audio recordings, but the management and analysis 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 |
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| ISSN: | 2046-1402 2046-1402 |