Course curriculum

    1. Properties of sound

    2. What do we analyse?

    3. Social calls

    4. Why analyse bat calls?

    5. Bats aren't birds or frogs

    6. Workflow

    7. How to identify bat species from call sequences

    1. Introduction

    2. Technologies: heterodyne

    3. Technologies: frequency division

    4. Technologies: time expansion

    5. Technologies: full spectrum

    6. Technologies: zero-crossing

    7. Active recorders

    8. Passive recorders

    9. Ultrasound and acoustics

    10. Do-it-Yourself

    11. Using statics versus transects

    12. Right tool for the job

    13. Purchasing advice

    14. How to choose a device

    15. Personal recommendations

    16. What's in my bag?

    17. Software: viewers

    18. Software: classifiers

    1. Measuring call parameters

    2. What to measure?

    3. How do these parameters interact?

    4. Features to look for

    5. Call structure

    6. Call structure variation

    7. Call structure combination

    8. Using the right scale

    9. Confidence metrics

    10. Bad recordings

    11. Good recording practices

    12. Examples

    13. More examples

    1. Clutter

    2. Doppler shift

    3. Geographical variation

    4. Detection range

    5. Jamming avoidance

    1. Vetting a classifier output

    2. Quality control

    3. Grouping species

    4. Species identification challenges

    5. Bat families around the world

About this course

  • $119.00
  • 99 lessons
  • 9.5 hours of video content

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