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

fYear

2006

fDate

Dec. 2006

Firstpage

592

Lastpage

600

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;

fLanguage

English

Publisher

ieee

Conference_Titel

Multimedia, 2006. ISM'06. Eighth IEEE International Symposium on

Conference_Location

San Diego, CA

Print_ISBN

0-7695-2746-9

Type

conf

DOI

10.1109/ISM.2006.23

Filename

4061219