joekbullard/Bat-Data-Processing

Processing and management of bat acoustic data

AWT Bat Data Processing

Introduction

AWT Bat Data Processing scans a directory and processes WAV files recorded from static bat detectors using the BatDetect2 library. The outputs (records and annotations) are saved into an SQLite database.

Table of Contents

• Key Features
• Installation Instructions
• Usage Instructions
• Dependencies
• Configuration
• Examples

Key Features

• Feature 1: Given path to WAV directory, iterates over WAV files and processes each file in turn.
• Feature 2: Output is stored in SQLite3 database.
• Feature 3: Database and schema will be created if it doesn't exist.

Installation Instructions

1. Ensure you have Python version > 3.8 and <= 3.10 installed.
2. Create and activate a virtual environment:

   python -m venv venv
   source venv/bin/activate   # On Windows use `venv\Scripts\activate`

3. Install the required packages using the requirements.txt file:

   pip install -r requirements.txt

Usage Instructions

To use the script, run the following command:

python wav_to_sqlite.py "path/to/directory"

Example Usage

python wav_to_sqlite.py "D:\Goblin Combe - Bat Data\2024\Deployments\2024-05-28\GC17\Data"

Dependencies

• Python (version > 3.8 and <= 3.10)
• BatDetect2
• guano