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Rewilding's technological experiments: Virtual reality and scalable narratives of rewilding in the Scottish highlands

People and Nature, EarlyView.
Abstract Depictions of rewilded landscapes reveal the underlying principles shaping the future of rewilding. This paper analyses a virtual reality (VR) model of a rewilding project in the Scottish Highlands that is advertised as a vision of a rewilded nature in 50 to 100 years' time.
Nick Sidwell
wiley   +1 more source

Multi‐Platform Deployments of Low‐Cost Devices for Cetacean Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Recent advances in affordable, user‐friendly devices offer new opportunities to overcome cost constraints of underwater passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) and expand acoustic data collection. In this study, we deployed low‐cost acoustic recorders and underwater cameras across a range of platforms in the Western Mediterranean, including fishing gear ...
Greta Jankauskaite, François Poisson, Irati Abascal, Javier Menéndez‐Blázquez, Clara Cánovas Pérez, Sofia Conti, Ricardo Sagarminaga, Juan Antonio Raga, David March   +8 more
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The dying of Czerniakowskie Lake, the dying of quiet. From a hi-fi to a lo-fi soundscape

Etnografia Polska, 2019
Raymond Murray Schafer, a pioneer in research on the soundscape, distinguished between hi-fi and lo-fi soundscapes. The hi-fi soundscape is characterized by natural sounds, recognizable as acoustic signals. Such a soundscape has room for quiet.
Iwona Kabzińska
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Widespread Bomb Fishing in Indo‐Pacific Archipelago Revealed Through Machine Learning Accelerated Passive Acoustic Monitoring

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
AI‐accelerated passive acoustic monitoring reveals extensive bomb fishing within the Spermonde Archipelago, with annual incidents numbering in the thousands. ABSTRACT Bomb fishing is recognised as the most destructive fishing practice that can be performed in our oceans.
Ben Williams, Mars Coral Restoration Project Monitoring Team, Aimee du Luart, Sonny Burniston, Tries B. Razak, Timothy A. C. Lamont, David J. Smith, Jamaluddin Jompa, David Curnick, Kate E. Jones   +9 more
wiley   +1 more source

Few Annotations, High Accuracy: Transfer Learning and Data Augmentation Improve Passive Acoustic Monitoring of the Vulnerable African Manatee

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
Can deep learning reliably detect a threatened species in passive acoustic monitoring with few annotations? Across 52 sites and 600 recording days, we compared two deep learning recognizers with the traditional machine learning Kaleidoscope for detecting African manatee vocalizations.
Lucas Dubus, Auguste Verdier, Nina Giotto, Grace Mbemba, Gabriel Michelin, Baptiste Mulot, Stéphanie Manel, David Mouillot   +7 more
wiley   +1 more source

Livingscape multi-sensory experience in urban historical places: subjective assessment from the local people and quality of the urban environment [PDF]

, 2011
The environmental quality of open spaces has more and more become an essential part of urban culture. The multi-sensory nature of livingscape (urban blight, soundscape, light-scape, thermal-scape, subjective user responses) assessments is acknowledged by
Bronuzzi, Fabrizio, Bottalico, Pasquale, La Malva, Francesca, Astolfi, Arianna, Lo Verso, Valerio Roberto Maria   +4 more
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Examining the Impact of Color-Sound Interactions on Young Pedestrians' Emotions: A Virtual Reality Experiment on a Commercial Street [PDF]

E3S Web of Conferences
Optimizing the multisensory environment is critical to revitalizing offline commercial districts, yet empirical evidence for the coupling mechanism of color temperature and soundscape remains insufficient.
Zhang Jiarui
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The Soundscape Indices (SSID) Protocol: A Method for Urban Soundscape Surveys—Questionnaires with Acoustical and Contextual Information

Applied Sciences, 2020
A protocol for characterizing urban soundscapes for use in the design of Soundscape Indices (SSID) and general urban research as implemented under the European Research Council (ERC)-funded SSID project is described in detail.
Andrew Mitchell, Tin Oberman, Francesco Aletta, Mercede Erfanian, Magdalena Kachlicka, Matteo Lionello, Jian Kang   +6 more
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Repurposing Bird‐Based Acoustic Models for Amphibian Surveys: Strengths and Limitations in Real‐World Deployments

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
In this study, we developed AnuraSearch, an open‐source classifier for 11 Ukrainian amphibian species, by repurposing the avian BirdNET algorithm via transfer learning to process over 18,000 h of autonomous acoustic recordings. Although the model demonstrated high precision and successfully reconstructed detailed seasonal and diel vocal activity ...
Vasylyna Strus, Yurii Strus, Nazar Smirnov, Anna Fedorova, Nataliia Suriadna, Mykola Drohvalenko   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source

Listening to the City: Evaluating BirdNET Reliability and Bias in Urban Bird Community Assessments

Remote Sensing in Ecology and Conservation, EarlyView.
BirdNET substantially overestimates urban bird species richness, but seasonal filtering and local calibration meaningfully improve classification precision. ABSTRACT BirdNET is increasingly used for passive acoustic monitoring (PAM), yet its reliability in urban environments that have high levels of anthropogenic noise remains poorly understood.
Valeria Ferrario, Riccardo Alba, Fabio Marcolin, Giordano Brambilla, Dan Chamberlain, Enrico Caprio   +5 more
wiley   +1 more source