Acoustic Recordings from Great Western Woodlands SuperSite

Audio files from two recorders at the Great Western Woodlands SuperSite, collecting 12 hours of data per day split between dawn and dusk periods. The recordings are accompanied by long-term spectrograms, acoustic indices, false color spectrograms, and sensor data including temperature and sound pressure levels.

Use Cases

• Analyze acoustic indices to characterize the soundscape and monitor temporal trends in the semi-arid woodland.
• Use false color spectrograms to identify and navigate to specific sound sources such as birds, insects, or weather events.
• Correlate temperature and sound pressure level sensor data with acoustic activity patterns across dawn and dusk recording periods.

Strengths

• Recordings are structured to capture 12 hours per day, specifically targeting morning and evening bird choruses.
• Includes derived analytical products such as acoustic indices and false color spectrograms to aid data exploration.
• Site has a long historical context, having been a pastoral lease from 1907 to 2007 before becoming a research site.

Limitations

• The specific number of audio files, total data size, and temporal coverage beyond the start year (2012) are not provided.
• Data is delivered in HTML and PNG formats, which may require additional processing for quantitative acoustic analysis compared to raw audio formats.

Provenance

Source

Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network's Data Discovery

Collection Method

Audio collected from two acoustic recorders set to capture 6 hours around dawn and 6 hours around dusk daily.

Time Range

Recordings began in 2012; specific end date not provided.

Freshness

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Geography

Great Western Woodlands SuperSite in Credo Conservation Park, Western Australia, a semi-arid woodland area.