TERN Geospatial Catalogue
Mitchell Grass Rangeland Acoustic Data Collection - A2O Project
<p>This dataset contains audio files for TERN Mitchell Grass Rangeland SuperSite. Long-term recordings of the environment can be used to identify sound sources of interest, characterise the soundscape, aid in the assessment of fauna biodiversity, monitor temporal trends and track environmental changes.</p>
<p>Mitchell Grass Rangeland SuperSite is located at Rosebank Station, approximately 11 km south-east of Longreach in Queensland. The site is arid tussock grassland with a variety of grass species including <em>Astrebla lappacea</em> and <em>Astrebla squarrosa</em> over black vertosol soil that supports sheep and beef cattle grazing. For additional site information, see https://www.tern.org.au/tern-observatory/tern-ecosystem-processes/mitchell-grass-rangeland-supersite/.</p>
<p>In 2020 four acoustic recorders were set up to collect audio data continuously as part of the Australian Acoustic Observatory (A2O) project. Two recorders were placed in relatively wet habitats and two in relatively dry habitats.</p>
<p>Data are made available through the data link.</p>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-03-17
- Date (Publication)
- 2022-09-28
- Date (Revision)
- 2014-07-14
- Edition
- 1.0
Publisher
Author
Queensland University of Technology - Rowlings, David ()
2 George St, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
Brisbane
QLD
4000
Australia
Author
Queensland University of Technology - Tucker, David (Research Assistant)
2 George St, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
Brisbane
QLD
4000
Australia
- Website
- https://www.tern.org.au/
- Purpose
- Long-term acoustic recordings are collected to characterise the acoustic sources in the ecosystem. Recordings can be used to estimate biodiversity, monitor temporal changes in the soundscape, compare the acoustic characteristics of different locations, and assess the effect of particular events such as bushfires and floods.
- Credit
- We at TERN acknowledge the Traditional Owners and Custodians throughout Australia, New Zealand and all nations. We honour their profound connections to land, water, biodiversity and culture and pay our respects to their Elders past, present and emerging.
- Credit
- <p>Mitchell Grass Rangelands site is located on a property currently managed by the Department of Agriculture and Fisheries (previously Longreach Pastoral College). Equipment and data collection are managed by Queensland University of Technology (QUT).</p> <p>Australian Acoustic Observatory: A Network to Monitor Biodiversity Project Team, with funding from the Australian Government through the Australian Research Council (LE170100033) (2018). Brisbane, QLD: QUT [www.acousticobservatory.org] </p>
- Status
- On going
Point of contact
Queensland University of Technology - Rowlings, David ()
2 George St, Brisbane, QLD, 4000, Australia
2 George St
Brisbane
QLD
4000
Australia
- Topic category
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- Environment
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2020-03-17
- Title
- Roe et al. (2021). The Australian acoustic observatory. Methods in ecology and evolutions. 00:1-7. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13660.
- Website
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Roe et al. (2021). The Australian acoustic observatory. Methods in ecology and evolutions. 00:1-7. DOI: 10.1111/2041-210X.13660.
Related documentation
- Maintenance and update frequency
- As needed
- GCMD Science Keywords
- ANZSRC Fields of Research
- TERN Platform Vocabulary
- TERN Instrument Vocabulary
- TERN Parameter Vocabulary
- QUDT Units of Measure
- GCMD Horizontal Resolution Ranges
- GCMD Temporal Resolution Ranges
- Australian Faunal Directory
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Acoustic recordings
- mgrl
Resource constraints
- Use limitation
- The Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0) license allows others to copy, distribute, display, and create derivative works provided that they credit the original source and any other nominated parties. Details are provided at https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by/4.0/
- File name
- 88x31.png
- File description
- CCBy Logo from creativecommons.org
- File type
- png
- Title
- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
- Alternate title
- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
- Access constraints
- License
- Use constraints
- Other restrictions
- Other constraints
- TERN services are provided on an "as-is" and "as available" basis. Users use any TERN services at their discretion and risk. They will be solely responsible for any damage or loss whatsoever that results from such use including use of any data obtained through TERN and any analysis performed using the TERN infrastructure. <br />Web links to and from external, third party websites should not be construed as implying any relationships with and/or endorsement of the external site or its content by TERN. <br /><br />Please advise any work or publications that use this data via the online form at https://www.tern.org.au/research-publications/#reporting
- Other constraints
- Please cite this dataset as {Author} ({PublicationYear}). {Title}. {Version, as appropriate}. Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network. Dataset. {Identifier}.
Resource constraints
- Classification
- Unclassified
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Queensland University of Technology
2 George St, Brisbane QLD 4000, Australia
Brisbane
QLD
4000
Australia
- OnLine resource
- Audio files - A2O
Resource lineage
- Statement
- <p>Four acoustic sensors are set up to collect audio data continuosly as part of the A2O project. Sensors are Frontier Labs Solar BAR. Each sensor has a Primo EM172 microphone with an 80 dB signal-to-noise ratio, 14 dBA self-noise, -28 dB sensitivity, and a flat response (+2 dB between 80 Hz and 20 kHz). Sensors have a gain of 50 dB. They are mounted on 1.8 m star pikets and powered by solar panels. Data are recorded continuously. Recordings are made as single channel, two-hour long flac files. They have a sampling rate of 22,050 Hz and a depth of 16 bits. </p> <p>The four sensors are deployed in pairs. Each pair contains a wet and a dry sensor. Wet sensors are located within 50 m from the edge of a body of water. Dry sensors are located between 500 m and 5 km from their corresponding wet sensors. Wet–wet and dry–dry sensor points are at a distance between 500 m and 5 km.</p> <p>Data are made available through the A2O website on a regular base.</p>
- Hierarchy level
- Dataset
- Title
- A2O information brochure
- Website
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https://acousticobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2018/12/australian-acoustic-observatory-brochure_dec20181.pdf
Method documentation
- Title
- Deployment manual for solar powered acoustic sensors
- Website
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https://acousticobservatory.org/wp-content/uploads/2019/06/a2o_deployment-manual_052019_v25.pdf
Method documentation
Reference System Information
- Reference system identifier
- EPSG/EPSG:4326
- Reference system type
- Geodetic Geographic 2D
Metadata
- Metadata identifier
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urn:uuid/611b87e9-eab3-4e2a-8edb-6608fdf73dca
- Title
- TERN GeoNetwork UUID
- Language
- English
- Character encoding
- UTF8
Point of contact
Type of resource
- Resource scope
- Dataset
- Metadata linkage
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https://geonetwork.tern.org.au/geonetwork/srv/eng/catalog.search#/metadata/611b87e9-eab3-4e2a-8edb-6608fdf73dca
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-07-28T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2022-09-28T00:00:00
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO 19115-1:2014/AMD 1:2018 Geographic information - Metadata - Fundamentals
- Edition
- 1
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19115-3:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
Metadata standard
- Title
- ISO/TS 19157-2:2016
- Edition
- 1.0
- Title
- Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN) Metadata Profile of ISO 19115-3:2016 and ISO 19157-2:2016
- Date (published)
- 2021
- Edition
- 1.0
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