READ ME File For 'Dataset showing how plastic bag coverings affect passive acoustic monitoring recordings made using the AudioMoth'

Dataset DOI  https://doi.org/10.5258/SOTON/D2399 

ReadMe Authors: Patrick E. Osborne, Tatiana Alvares-Sanches & Paul R. White, University of Southampton

This dataset supports the publication:
Patrick E. Osborne, Tatiana Alvares-Sanches & Paul R. White. To bag or not to bag? How Audiomoth-based passive acoustic monitoring is impacted by protective coverings. Methods in Ecology and Evolution.

Description:
The csv file contains the data used in Figures 4 to 7 and subsequent analyses. A full description of how the data were generated is provided in the publication. Briefly, experiments in an anechoic chamber allowed the creation of FIR filters that mimicked how protective coverings affect the FRF of 10 AudioMoth devices. These were applied to ~1000 recordings and 19 acoustic metrics were calculated from these. These data form the 39,960 rows in the csv file.

Each row represents one recording, bag treatment and AudioMoth combination.

The columns are:

1. Recording ID: code identifying each recording.
2. Treatment: At source - the original recording; B0 - bare board AudioMoth; B1 - AudioMoth in B1 bag configuration; B3 - AudioMoth in B3 bag configuration; B4 - AudioMoth in B4 bag configuration. For bag configurations, see Table 1 in the publication.
3. AM code: NA - not applicable; 1 to 10 - IDs of individual AudioMoth devices.
4 - 22. The values of the acoustic metrics described in Table 2.

Geographic location of data collection: large anechoic chamber at the University of Southampton, and field data from the city of Southampton, UK.

Date of data collection: Throughout 2020 and early 2021.

Dataset available under a CC BY 4.0 licence


Publisher: University of Southampton, U.K.


Date: October 2022