Questions tagged [pamguard]
Open-source software for passive acoustic monitoring that allows real-time and later analysis of recordings including detection, classification, and localization. All posts using this tag should include the version number.
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What frequency range does PAMGuard's click detector measure background noise?
I have been reading through the PAMGuard help files and was wondering over what frequency range does PAMGuard measure the background noise level in order to trigger a click detection? Does the measure ...
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Detect 20 Hz Fin Whale Songs with PAMGuard
I want to use PAMGuard to detect 20 Hz fin whale vocalizations from audio files that I've created from low frequency (fs = 200 Hz) hydrophone data. I've figured out how to load the audio file and ...
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How does PAMGuard echo detector work?
I have sperm whales recordings and I would like to isolate clicks and their bottom and surface reflections.
I first thought to run the echo detector associated with the click detector module but the ...
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How to get the distance to a sound source using a 2 channel hydrophone array (bearing)?
I am going to use a 2 channel hydrophone array during some boat surveys. I will be collecting GPS data as well and I heard that with the bearing and the change in location pamguard can estimate the ...
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How to synchronize two independent soundtraps working as part of the same hydrophone array?
I am going to carry out a series of surveys in Peru for which I plan to tow two soundtraps inserted in the same towfish. They will be separated by approximately 50 cm so I want to use them to extract ...
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PAMGuard not reading files
PAMguard is leaving quite a lot of files unproccesed. They are all in the same folder, but apparently it cannot access to some of them (image 1), and it appears to be in a random manner (image 2). We ...
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PAMguard Database-PAMbinary data organisation
I have been proccessing data in PAMguard with the Whistle & Moan Detector and the Noiseband Monitor, and I have two templates depending on the 2 STs sensitivity (only 1 PAM sation).
I decided not ...
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How to view continuous data in the DATA MAP of the PAMGuard Viewer, which were recorded at a rate of 1 minute every 10 minutes without the nodata set
I am analyzing 7 months of data, where a search will be made for acoustic signals of cetaceans using the PAMGuard and PAMGuard Viewer detectors.
When loading data, which was recorded continuously at a ...
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PamGuard Click Train Detector is not colouring detected click trains
I have just started to do some tests in the PamGuard Click Train Detector.
I ran some data from Riso’s dolphin that has a lot of click trains.
For starting, I kept the default configuration for ...
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Resources/courses for large PAM dataset- porpoises
I am working on extracting porpoise clicks from a multi-year dataset from the northeast pacific using PAMGuard's click detector. I am new to the software and have come across issues in detection using ...
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What is the bearing's reference point in PAMguard
Maybe a silly question but I haven't found simple obvious answer in the help of PAMGuard.
I am running the click detector on recordings from a two-fixed-hydrophone array simplified on the figure below....
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The preamplifier in PAMGuard
I'm using a towed array (with two hydrophones and 200m cable) to detect Cetaceans.
We bought from MARINE-ECOSOL. The hydrophone type is Magrec HP03, the DAQ is SAIL DAQ system.
Normally the sounds ...
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How to parametrize PAMGuard to avoid great bearing inaccuracies all along a recording
I am running PAMGuard click detector on a two hydrophone array's recording to detect sperm whales clicks and calculate their bearing. The array is at a roughly 2300m depth, 40m above ocean's floor, ...
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How do I produce a wav. file every time I manually select a signal using spectrogram annotation?
I am trying to extract wav. files every time I manually select a signal using the Spectrogram Annotation Module in PAMGuard . The only way I have found to do this automatically is by using the clip ...
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How to regenerate Data Map in Pamguard Viewer
When a database is opened for the first time in Pamguard Viewer Mode, it usually prompts for you to specify the resolution of the datamap. The default is 600 seconds. To be more specific, in my case I ...
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