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  • Ecoacoustics and biodiversity monitoring.
  • Bioacoustics and soundscape ecology.
  • Open-source software development for ecological research.

Background:

  • Passive acoustic monitoring generates large audio datasets, posing significant data management and analysis challenges.
  • Existing software solutions often fail to meet the comprehensive needs for managing, processing, navigating, and analyzing acoustic data.
  • The field of ecoacoustics requires accessible, evolving, and free software tools.

Purpose of the Study:

  • To introduce ecoSound-web, an open-source online platform designed to overcome the technical hurdles in ecoacoustic data analysis.
  • To provide a unified solution for storing, organizing, processing, analyzing, and sharing soundscape recordings and associated metadata.
  • To facilitate ecological research through accessible and advanced acoustic data management and analysis capabilities.

Main Methods:

  • Development of an open-source, web-based platform (ecoSound-web) by ecologists and software engineers.
  • Implementation of features for manual and automatic (deep-learning) annotation of soniferous animals and soundscape components.
  • Integration of tools for audio analysis in time/frequency domains, acoustic index computation, and reference sound library management.
  • Inclusion of peer-review functionalities for annotations.

Main Results:

  • ecoSound-web offers a comprehensive suite of tools for managing and analyzing acoustic data, including storage, re-sampling, and organization.
  • The platform supports manual annotation and automated annotation for birds and UK bat species using deep learning models.
  • Users can compute alpha acoustic indices, analyze audio spectrographically, and utilize reference sound libraries for various taxa.
  • Demonstrated use cases include sampling bird/bat communities, analyzing primate calls, and assessing soundscape components.

Conclusions:

  • ecoSound-web provides a free, accessible, and evolving platform to address critical needs in ecoacoustic data management and analysis.
  • The platform empowers researchers to efficiently process and analyze large acoustic datasets, advancing biodiversity monitoring and soundscape ecology.
  • Its open-source nature fosters collaboration and continuous improvement within the ecoacoustics community.