Wrangling in the Antipodes

Introduction In the previous (rather distant) blog post, I began an exploration of Python’s powerful soundscape analysis package, scikit-maad with a demonstration of how you can easily render circadian soundscapes (24-hour summaries of a soundscape) from…

Introduction For some time I’ve been meaning to get stuck into one of Python’s most powerful and prolific libraries for exploring soundscapes – scikit-maad.

Over the last three years of maintaining this blog, there’s been a conspicuous absence in the acoustic index toolkit presented so far.

Happy new year everyone!

If you’ve found this post and want to jump to the solution I’ve developed, go for it and find it further down this post – I shall not be offended.

As I’d indicated in my previous post, following the interesting outcome of the October 2022 AudioMoth deployment on Lady Bay reef, I intended to return and deploy a pair of AudioMoths to make further observations of the reef’s underwater environment.

Back in October, I made a trip down to a reef located at Lady Bay, a beach located about two kilometers south of the township of Normanville, on the western coast of the Fleurieu Peninsula.

Up to now on this blog I’ve been exploring acoustic ecology and data science tools mostly within the context of acoustic indices, regular events occurring in a time series and trend-based analysis.

In an earlier post from 2021, I ran through a basic use case for an acoustic index called the Normalised Difference Soundscape Index (NDSI).

There’s a couple of posts coming this month and here’s the first one explaining what’s happening (or actually, not happening) with the Middle Farm project.