Questions tagged [calibration]
Questions related to measuring a device's frequency-response and sensitivity.
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How to Translate Power Metrics in Raven Pro to Received Levels
I added in-band power and average power measurements to my selection table in Raven. I also have the end to end calculation of my instruments. To calculate the received levels, is it just a matter of ...
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Hydrophone calibration in a tank vs open water?
I’m looking to calibrate some hydrophones (specifically SoundTrap 300HFs, but perhaps this applies more broadly). I’m aiming to compare the SoundTrap hydrophone with a reference one, roughly following ...
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How to adjust seewave spectro to account for hydrophone sensitivity?
I am using seewave's spectro() to generate a spectrogram from a hydrophone recording. My call is:
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How to apply calibration infromation to Triton generated LTSAs
Is it possible to apply single end-to-end calibration values or a transfer function to LTSA plots generated in Triton? The User Guide says that transfer functions are not applied to LTSAs but that a ...
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How long do hydrophone (/microphone) calibrations last for?
A colleague asked the room this the other day and nobody could confidently answer this... How long, after an acoustic sensor has been calibrated, is its calibration curve trustworthy for?
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Recommendations for deep sea hydrophone calibration - US West Coast
I would like recommendations of where to get 7 deep-sea hydrophones fully calibrated. Units are SonoValuts (purchased new from Develogic) and the hydrophones are Neptune D/60. Recorders were ...
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Calibrate automatic recorders: advice for reliable / reproducible workflow?
I would like to get the ambient noise levels of a habitat that I have been monitoring for some time (monitoring birds, 0-16 kHz). For this, I want to calibrate my recorders and get their sensitivity ...
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Best practice for measuring amplitude of biophony
It is often useful to quantitatively measure (or at least estimate) the amplitude of an acoustic event such as a bird song. The desired measurement could be, for instance, that a bird sang at 105 dB ...
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How can you incorporate the hydrophone calibration in Avisoft?
I am stuck in being able to calibrate the avisoft. I have a soundtrap Hf300 and I'm not sure how to insert the data into the avisoft calibration. Any advice? Thanks
All the best
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Low cost hydrophones for quantitative sound pressure measurements?
Has anyone experience with using low-cost hydrophones, for example the Acquarian Audio H2a, and use a calibration measurements, for example by comparing to a Brüel Kjaer 8106, to get quantitative ...
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How to evaluate changing sensitivity of a recorder over time?
In discussions with colleagues I've learned that the sensitivity of a recorder can vary over the duration of a deployment.
I'm not sure why or how this happens, but how can you evaluate if it has ...
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SoundTrap calibration at high frequencies
SoundTraps, like all high frequency recorders, are highly unlikely to have a flat frequency response. Although there is some calibration information at 250 Hz from the manufacturer this will not ...
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Implementing reciprocity calibrations inhouse?
Inspired by this question I began to wonder how implementable an inhouse reciprocity calibration would be. In reciprocal calibration, 2 or 3 mics are used as sound sources and as recovers to quantify ...
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Can someone recommend hardware to generate ultrasound on underwater recording rig?
I would like to construct a simple system for automatic playback of ultrasound signals at low levels for calibration purposes on an underwater recording rig. Can anyone point to a suitable DAC (...
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How to correctly input SoundTraps calibration data in PAMGuard for accurate noise measurements?
I am working with data from 3 different HF500 SoundTraps.
To compare noise levels across stations, I would like to calibrate the measurements using the calibration values provided by the manufacturer.
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