Earth NotesDiarycast - Ambient Sound of a Graveyard (2020-05-13) - Ambient sound of silence (nearly) from a tranquil (nearly) suburban cemetery... #podcast #lockdown2020 #SilentCities - https://m.earth.org.uk/diarycast-20200513.html
Diarycast - Urban Dawn Chorus (2020-05-23) - Ambient sound of silence (nearly) from a tranquil (nearly) suburban garden... #podcast #SilentCities #OrkneyLibraryHaiku - https://m.earth.org.uk/diarycast-20200523.html
Diarycast - Ambient Sound of a Graveyard (2020-05-13) - Ambient sound of silence (nearly) from a tranquil (nearly) suburban cemetery... #podcast #lockdown2020 #SilentCities - https://m.earth.org.uk/diarycast-20200513.html
capreolusFinally we got our #SilentCities dataset published!
With 261 colleagues around the globe we collected audio when human isolation during the #covid19 pandemic had drastically changed the #soundscape of the urban ecosystem. Birds vs cars #tech4wildlife
A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic - Scientific Data
Political responses to the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in city soundscapes around the globe. From March to October 2020, a consortium of 261 contributors from 35 countries brought together by the Silent Cities project built a unique soundscape recordings collection to report on local acoustic changes in urban areas. We present this collection here, along with metadata including observational descriptions of the local areas from the contributors, open-source environmental data, open-source confinement levels and calculation of acoustic descriptors. We performed a technical validation of the dataset using statistical models run on a subset of manually annotated soundscapes. Results confirmed the large-scale usability of ecoacoustic indices and automatic sound event recognition in the Silent Cities soundscape collection. We expect this dataset to be useful for research in the multidisciplinary field of environmental sciences.
Darren O'ConnellGreat to see our #SilentCities dataset published in Scientific Data!
With 261 colleagues around the world, we collected audio when human isolation during the #covid19 pandemic had drastically changed the #soundscape of the urban ecosystem
As expected, during lockdowns, measures of biophony (sound produced by living organisms) increased, while levels of anthrophony (human produced sound) descreased
A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic - Scientific Data
Political responses to the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in city soundscapes around the globe. From March to October 2020, a consortium of 261 contributors from 35 countries brought together by the Silent Cities project built a unique soundscape recordings collection to report on local acoustic changes in urban areas. We present this collection here, along with metadata including observational descriptions of the local areas from the contributors, open-source environmental data, open-source confinement levels and calculation of acoustic descriptors. We performed a technical validation of the dataset using statistical models run on a subset of manually annotated soundscapes. Results confirmed the large-scale usability of ecoacoustic indices and automatic sound event recognition in the Silent Cities soundscape collection. We expect this dataset to be useful for research in the multidisciplinary field of environmental sciences.