Questions tagged [snr]
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Song Meter vs AudioMoth PAM performance
I'm assembling a PAM field kit for the upcoming breeding season in the temperate rainforest ecoregion of Washington, USA, and would love to learn about your experiences with different ARU (Autonomous ...
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How to calculate the SNR of a call in Matlab
I was wondering if anyone could provide some insight on how to calculate the SNR of low frequency baleen whale calls? Matlab has a SNR function,but when I try that it doesn't seem to be capturing the ...
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"dB [re 1 µPa]" notation - why sometimes with a reference, and sometimes without?
I've come across several different formats for reporting acoustic measurements. One that has particularly confused me is when someone reports the source level of something as, for example, "120 ...
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Why report SNR, and what SNR is acceptable?
I see several papers that quantify animal sounds and include the SNR (signal-to-noise ratio) of the signals of interest. Why is this done - surely a signal wouldn't be detected if the SNR was ...