Tech and coding to study marine mammals
PAMGuard 2.02.13 has been released so yes, the version number is pretty iterative but this release has some major new features hidden beneath the bonnet which are both will be super useful to some and tell us a little about where PAMGuard is going in the next few years. So what s new and how s [ ]
Southern right whale picture by Brian Skerry The continued increase in the storage capacity and battery life of acoustic recorders is allowing industry and academia to collect passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) data over ever larger spatial and temporal scales. With this glut of new data comes a problem what do we do with all [ ]
Guest blog post by bioacoustics PhD student Chloe Malinka, @c_malinka We at Coding for Conservation would like to let you know about a recent publication, authored by researchers from the Marine Bioacoustics lab at Aarhus University, the Sea Mammal Research Unit, the Bahamas Marine Mammal Research Organisation, and Ocean Instruments. (A very rough first draft of this paper [ ]
Introduction Most research into wild marine mammals occurs in wealthy countries. Amazingly, in 2018, we have still have very little idea what species are present, let alone the population size / health status / behaviour, etc. in many parts of the world. A solid first step to address this problem is to conduct a rapid assessment [ ]
JavaFX is a library for producing awesome GUI's. Here are some examples of it being used in science.... Recently JavaFX has been removed from the main Java release, here's hoping it's going to survive and thrive out there in the wild...
A review of our recent publication using coding in a conservation context.
An updated MATLAB function and example on how to plot LTSA's if using PAMGuard 2.0+
2018 and how to make a colour slider in JavaFX
A discussion on the different methods C-PODs and PAMGuard use to analyse bioacoustic data and how we should compare them.
PAMGuard 2.0 has a brand new MATLAB libray. Here's a quick tutorial on how to use it.