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Imperial College London

SAFE Acoustics: An open‐source, real‐time eco‐acoustic monitoring network in the tropical rainforests of Borneo

Sarab S Sethi, Robert M Ewers, Nick S Jones, Aaron Signorelli, Lorenzo Picinali, Christopher David L Orme
October 1, 2020
Methods in Ecology and Evolution
Volume 
11
Issue 
10
Pages 
1182-1185

Automated monitoring approaches offer an avenue to unlocking large‐scale insight into how ecosystems respond to human pressures. However, since data collection and data analyses are often treated independently, there are currently no open‐source examples of end‐to‐end, real‐time ecological monitoring networks. Here, we present the complete implementation of an autonomous acoustic monitoring network deployed in the tropical rainforests of Borneo. Real‐time audio is uploaded remotely from the field, indexed by a central database, and delivered via an API to a public‐facing website. We provide the open‐source code and design of our monitoring devices, the central web2py database, and the ReactJS website. Furthermore, we demonstrate an extension of this infrastructure to deliver real‐time analyses of the eco‐acoustic data. By detailing a fully functional, open source, and extensively tested …

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