Fletcherview Tropical Rangeland Acoustic Data Collection - A2O Project
<p>This dataset contains audio files for TERN Fletcherview Tropical 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>Fletcherview Tropical Rangeland SuperSite was established in 2021 at James Cook University’s Fletcherview Research Station, a fully operational outback cattle station located 50 km west of Townsville, Queensland. The site is used for cattle grazing and is characterised by tall open savanna. The vegetation is dominated by native grasses such as blackspear and kangaroo grasses, as well as introduced species like buffel grass, signal grass and leucaena. Fletcherview typically experiences a dry and wet season, with most rainfall occurring between January and April.</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>
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Identification info
- Date (Creation)
- 2020-08-10
- Date (Publication)
- 2023-02-20
- Date (Revision)
- 2024-05-12
- Edition
- 1.0
Publisher
Author
James Cook University - Schwarzkopf, Lin ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
Author
James Cook University - Allen-Ankins, Slade ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
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>The Fletcherview Tropical Rangeland SuperSite is managed by James Cook University. Infrastructure at the site was funded under the Queensland Government’s Research Infrastructure Co-Investment Fund (RICF) for co-investment to the Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network (TERN), a project of the Commonwealth’s National Collaborative Research Infrastructure Strategy (NCRIS).</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
James Cook University - Schwarzkopf, Lin ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
14-88 McGregor Road
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
Point of contact
James Cook University - Allen-Ankins, Slade ()
14-88 McGregor Road, Smithfield, 4878, Queensland, Australia
14-88 McGregor Road
Smithfield
Queensland
4878
Australia
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- Environment
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Temporal extent
- Time period
- 2020-08-10
- 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.
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- Australian Faunal Directory
- Keywords (Discipline)
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- Acoustic recordings
- fletch
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- 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/
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- png
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- Creative Commons Attribution 4.0 International Licence
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- CC-BY
- Edition
- 4.0
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- 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 Street, Brisbane, 4000, Queensland, Australia
Brisbane
Queensland
4000
Australia
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- Audio files - A2O
Distribution Information
Distributor
Distributor
Terrestrial Ecosystem Research Network
Building 1019, 80 Meiers Rd, Indooroopilly, QLD, Australia, 4068
Indooroopilly
QLD
4068
Australia
- Distribution format
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- OnLine resource
- ro-crate-metadata.json
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 pickets 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>
- 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/4c88c650-269f-4ba3-a297-e22ede100196
- 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/4c88c650-269f-4ba3-a297-e22ede100196
Point-of-truth metadata URL
- Date info (Creation)
- 2022-07-28T00:00:00
- Date info (Revision)
- 2024-05-12T00:00:00
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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Overviews
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