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Kendrick, P.; Barçante, L.; Beresford, N.A.; Gashchak, S.; Wood, M.D.

Bird Vocalisation Activity (BiVA) database: annotated soundscapes from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone

https://doi.org/10.5285/be5639e9-75e9-4aa3-afdd-65ba80352591 Cite this dataset
Data comprise audio files captured using a Wildlife Acoustics SM3 Songmeter located on an overgrown unpaved road close to several abandoned houses with deciduous trees (including fruit trees in former gardens) in the abandoned village of Buryakovka in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine. A single continuous recording of twelve hours of audio from midday until midnight on the 25th June 2015 was manually annotated by an expert (using Raven Pro interactive sound analysis software). The dataset comprises the resultant five wave files (stereo .wav sampled at 48 kHz) and five annotation files (text files with the same name as the associated wave file).
Publication date: 2018-09-10

Format

Waveform audio file

Spatial information

Study area
Spatial representation type
Tabular (text)
Spatial reference system
WGS 84

Temporal information

Temporal extent
2015-06-25    to    2015-06-26

Provenance & quality

Audio was captured from the abandoned village of Buryakovka in the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone, Ukraine; 51,382269, 29,924879 (WGS84). A single Wildlife Acoustics SM3 Songmeter was located on an overgrown unpaved road close to several abandoned houses with deciduous trees (including fruit trees in former gardens). A single continuous recording of 12 hours of audio was made using the SM3's built-in microphones on 25/06/2015 from midday until midnight. The audio was manually annotated by a single expert using Raven Pro. Files are stereo, wav files sampled at 48 kHz. Five wav files are included and tags are stored in five text files with the same name as the associated wave file. Annotations are only made on channel one.

Supplemental information

TREE website

Correspondence/contact details

Dr. Paul Kendrick
University of Salford
Newton Building
Salford
M5 4WT
UK
 P.Kendrick@salford.ac.uk

Authors

Kendrick, P.
University of Salford
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0714-183X
Barçante, L.
University of Salford
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7462-7899
Beresford, N.A.
Centre for Ecology & Hydrology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-0238
Gashchak, S.
Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7582-6742
Wood, M.D.
University of Salford
ORCID iD icon https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0635-2387

Other contacts

Rights holder
University of Salford
Custodian
NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk
Publisher
NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
 info@eidc.ac.uk

Additional metadata

Topic categories
biota
environment
INSPIRE theme
Environmental Monitoring Facilities
Keywords
birdsong , Chernobyl Exclusion Zone , Chornobyl , COMET , Radioecology , TRansfer - Exposure - Effects , TREE , Ukraine
Funding
Natural Environment Research Council Award: NE/L000393/1
Last updated
27 February 2024 16:27

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CITE AS: Kendrick, P.; Barçante, L.; Beresford, N.A.; Gashchak, S.; Wood, M.D. (2018). Bird Vocalisation Activity (BiVA) database: annotated soundscapes from the Chernobyl Exclusion Zone. NERC Environmental Information Data Centre. https://doi.org/10.5285/be5639e9-75e9-4aa3-afdd-65ba80352591

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