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Wildlife Acoustics Offers Bat Researchers Both Full-spectrum and Zero-crossing Capabilities
DENVER, Oct. 27 /PRNewswire-AsiaNet/ --
New software makes SM2BAT recordings compatible with competing
bat analysis software and protocols
40th North American Symposium on Bat Research -- Wildlife Acoustics, the leading supplier of acoustic
monitoring systems for wildlife around the world, announces its latest version 3.0 of the Wac2Wav(TM)
software. This software post-processes WAC recording files created by the Song Meter SM2BAT(TM)
ultrasonic recorders to prepare them for analysis by various third-party zero-crossing and full-spectrum
analysis tools.
"Our new Wac2Wav software makes the SM2BAT recorder backward compatible
with incumbent competitive solutions employing zero-crossing, time-expansion
and full-spectrum technologies," said Ian Agranat, President and CEO of
Wildlife Acoustics. "We recognize the investments our customers have made in
developing long-term monitoring protocols and now offer an easy migration
path to our SM2BAT ultrasonic recorder."
For zero-crossing analysis, the Wac2Wav software converts full-spectrum
recordings made by SM2BAT into files compatible with the leading
zero-crossing bat detectors. The sensitivity can be set to a specific level,
or Wac2Wav can automatically adjust the level for each bat pass to maximize
bat detection rates. If the SM2 GPS option is used, GPS latitude and
longitude coordinates are also automatically stored in the zero-crossing file
headers for transect surveys, and also logged to a text file.
To achieve equivalent temporal coverage of competing time-expansion
detectors, Wac2Wav software can truncate recordings to a specified length and
ignore recordings made while a time-expansion detector would not have been
monitoring.
And finally, for full-spectrum analysis, the Wac2Wav software can split
each bat pass into its own WAV file compatible with nearly all third-party
acoustic analysis tools.
Wac2Wav software also features a noise filter to optionally remove
triggered events unlikely to contain bat activity, and a compensation filter
to adjust the SMX-US microphone frequency response to improve automatic
classification performance of third-party classifiers based on reference
calls made by other systems.
"Our SM2BAT ultrasonic recorders are fully weatherproof, detect more bats
and at a fraction of the cost of any other bat detector on the worldwide
market today," Agranat continued. "Combined with our Wac2Wav software, we are
compatible with all the work-flows and analysis tools developed around
incumbent competing products including both full-spectrum and zero-crossing
technologies. With superior price performance and an easy migration path, we
are quickly becoming the new standard for the unattended acoustic monitoring
of bats worldwide."
About Wildlife Acoustics, Inc.
A wildly innovative company:
Wildlife Acoustics, Inc., a privately held Massachusetts corporation, is
the leading provider of bio-acoustic monitoring technology for scientists,
researchers and government agencies worldwide since 2003.
SOURCE: Wildlife Acoustics, Inc.
CONTACT: Ian Agranat
Wildlife Acoustics, Inc.
+1-978-369-5225
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