Remote Sensing of the Soundscape at the Samford Ecological Research Facility, South East Queensland Peri-Urban SuperSite, Samford, 2010-2011

The Samford Ecological Research Facility (SERF) provides a unique opportunity to investigate the role of sensors as a means to characterize ecological change. SERF is located in the Samford Valley, west of Brisbane, Australia. The Samford Valley has been transformed from forest land to an agronomic system (banana plantations, dairy, horse farms) and recently to a low to moderate density urban system. SERF is centered in a 50 ha mix of native forest and old field succession. Stuart Gage, Adjunct Professor at Queensland University of Technology (QUT), is conducting research on acoustic sensing of the environment in collaboration with QUT scientists Peter Grace and Paul Roe and PhD Student Jason Wimmer. The deployment of acoustic sensor platforms at SERF will enable us to understand the role of acoustics to determine ecosystem quality and biodiversity. Cyber-infrastructure has been developed to place the recordings in the REAL Digital Library and process the observations. The REAL website provides browse and search accessibility to the recordings, their spectrograms and the data table created via automated processing (see http://www.real.msu.edu). The data is available at QUT's Bioacoustic Workbench site http://baw.ecosounds.org/

萨姆福德生态研究设施（Samford Ecological Research Facility, SERF）为探究传感器在生态变化表征中的作用提供了独特契机。该设施坐落于澳大利亚布里斯班以西的萨姆福德谷，这片区域已从原生林地转型为涵盖香蕉种植园、奶牛牧场与马场的农艺系统，近期又发展为中低密度城市系统。SERF的核心区域为一片占地50公顷的原生林与旧地演替群落混合片区。昆士兰科技大学（Queensland University of Technology, QUT）兼职教授斯图尔特·盖奇（Stuart Gage），正与QUT科研人员彼得·格雷斯（Peter Grace）、保罗·罗（Paul Roe）以及博士生杰森·威默（Jason Wimmer）合作开展环境声学传感相关研究。在SERF部署声学传感器平台，将助力我们明确声学手段在评估生态系统质量与生物多样性方面的作用。目前已搭建网络基础设施，可将录音上传至REAL数字图书馆并完成观测数据的处理工作。REAL网站支持对录音文件、其声谱图（spectrograms）以及通过自动化处理生成的数据表进行浏览与检索（详见http://www.real.msu.edu）。该数据集可通过QUT的生物声学工作台（Bioacoustic Workbench）站点http://baw.ecosounds.org/ 获取。