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ProfessorRobertEwers

Faculty of Natural Sciences, Department of Life Sciences (Silwood Park)

Professor of Ecology
 
 
 
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+44 (0)20 7594 2223r.ewers

 
 
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1.4Centre for Population BiologySilwood Park

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Summary

 

Publications

Citation

BibTex format

@article{Sethi:2020:10.1111/2041-210X.13438,
author = {Sethi, S and Ewers, R and Jones, N and Signorelli, A and Picinali, L and Orme, CDL},
doi = {10.1111/2041-210X.13438},
journal = {Methods in Ecology and Evolution},
pages = {1182--1185},
title = {SAFE Acoustics: an open-source, real-time eco-acoustic monitoring network in the tropical rainforests of Borneo},
url = {http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13438},
volume = {11},
year = {2020}
}
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TY  - JOUR
AB  - 1.    Automated monitoring approaches offer an avenue to unlocking largescale insight into how ecosystems respond to human pressures. However, since data collection and data analyses are often treated independently, there are currently no opensource examples of endtoend, realtime ecological monitoring networks. 2.   Here, we present the complete implementation of an autonomous acoustic monitoring network deployed in the tropical rainforests of Borneo. Realtime audio is uploaded remotely from the field, indexed by a central database, and delivered via an API to a publicfacing website.3.    We provide the opensource 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 realtime analyses of the ecoacoustic data.  4.  By detailing a fully functional, open source, and extensively tested design, our work will accelerate the rate at which fully autonomous monitoring networks mature from technological curiosities, and towards genuinely impactful tools in ecology.
AU  - Sethi,S
AU  - Ewers,R
AU  - Jones,N
AU  - Signorelli,A
AU  - Picinali,L
AU  - Orme,CDL
DO  - 10.1111/2041-210X.13438
EP  - 1185
PY  - 2020///
SN  - 2041-210X
SP  - 1182
TI  - SAFE Acoustics: an open-source, real-time eco-acoustic monitoring network in the tropical rainforests of Borneo
T2  - Methods in Ecology and Evolution
UR  - http://dx.doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.13438
UR  - http://hdl.handle.net/10044/1/80832
VL  - 11
ER  -
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