Title :
An Automated Digital Sound Recording System: The Amphibulator
Author :
Cambron, Mark E. ; Bowker, Richard G.
Author_Institution :
Dept. of Eng., Western Kentucky Univ., Bowling Green, KY
Abstract :
Automated digital recording systems are important for studying and monitoring wildlife. Here we describe a new recording system, easily programmable and highly flexible, designed to control the Marantz Professional Solid State Recorder PMD 660. The system is currently being used to monitor the effects of global warming on populations of several species of amphibians in Spain and Portugal, to describe the acoustic landscape and bird populations in western Kentucky, and to study behavioral calls of midwife toads in central and northern Spain
Keywords :
audio recording; bioacoustics; biological techniques; biology computing; computerised monitoring; ecology; global warming; zoology; Marantz Professional Solid State Recorder PMD 660; Portugal; acoustic landscape; amphibians; amphibulator; automated digital sound recording system; bird populations; central Spain; global warming; midwife toads; northern Spain; western Kentucky; wildlife monitoring; Audio recording; Birds; Computerized monitoring; Digital recording; Global warming; Memory; Remote monitoring; Solid state circuits; Timing; Wildlife;
Conference_Titel :
Multimedia, 2006. ISM'06. Eighth IEEE International Symposium on
Conference_Location :
San Diego, CA
Print_ISBN :
0-7695-2746-9
DOI :
10.1109/ISM.2006.23
