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Belize project

Hi, This is specifically for the team who worked out in Belize. I am doing a similar project in Costa Rica and will be using the information I collect on spider monkeys to correlate this to gunshots. I would be interested to learn more about your work out there? have you published? If not is it possible to see your reports and to know more about your analysis of the gun shots, your algorithms.....Potentially I do not need to create a training database since you may already have one if you are happy to share this? Best wishes. Jenna

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Andy

Feb 26, 2018

Hi Jenna,

Just incase you haven't seen yet, we published a recent Methods in Ecology and Evolution paper covering this project in a bit more detail. The Belize project is still ongoing, the Open Acoustic Devices team will be there next month to continue the work, so unfortunately the code won't be ready for release until later this year. If you have any more questions that the paper doesn't answer let me know.

Thanks Andy

chrisgnicholas

Dec 08, 2023

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I'm really intereted in the 'rest of the pipeline' to detect gunshots; is this done in post-processing in Arbimon? I'm processing Audiomoth data now using Birdnet-analyze

for members of Naturesounds.org , and was thinking to try to train the model for this category of sound. Also (... undertanding there are serious power considerations...) it possible yet to detect gunshots, with reasonable probability, on board Audiomoths using Gecko DSP magic. Certainly the dream has always been to do low-bandwidth alerting using something like LoRa or APRS; versus massive, wide-area wireless bandwidth requirements for large-scale deployment of things like Forest guardians. But short of that, how other parks might start doing this kind of long-term monitoring and similar gunshot/bushmeat analysis. And also, what the reality is for Audiomoth acquisition these days - I see the 'Group Gets' notices .... It took nearly 8 months to get a 10-pack of devices + cases from LabMaker in Germany! thanks! Chris