Acoustic monitoring in Chemnitz: From the city to the forest - BirdNET x Botanical Garden
As part of a project to investigate the influence of road noise on the singing behavior of native birds, acoustic monitorung units are deployed in the Botanical Garden Chemnitz. Four audio recorders from OekoFor are set up at different distances from the road.
The bird calls captured by these audio recorders are analyzed using BirdNET, a collaborative initiative between Chemnitz University of Technology and the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics. BirdNET identifies bird species while filtering out human-made sounds. The results are available to the public on a project website, where the sounds of some of the recognized species can be heard. This repository contains the code for the Shiny App, which powers the project website.
This project is a collaboration between the Chemnitz Botanical Garden, Chemnitz University of Technology, and OekoFor.
The project website (designed for mobile devices) can be accessed via the following link: AMIC project website
This project is licensed under the MIT License - see the LICENSE.md file for details.
You can install the development version of amic from GitHub with:
# install.packages("devtools")
devtools::install_github("BirdNETPlus/amic")This project is supported by Jake Holshuh (Cornell class of ’69) and The Arthur Vining Davis Foundations. Our work in the K. Lisa Yang Center for Conservation Bioacoustics is made possible by the generosity of K. Lisa Yang to advance innovative conservation technologies to inspire and inform the conservation of wildlife and habitats.
The German Federal Ministry of Education and Research is funding the development of BirdNET through the project “BirdNET+” (FKZ 01|S22072). Additionally, the German Federal Ministry of Environment, Nature Conservation and Nuclear Safety is funding the development of BirdNET through the project “DeepBirdDetect” (FKZ 67KI31040E).
BirdNET is a joint effort of partners from academia and industry. Without these partnerships, this project would not have been possible. Thank you!
