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

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). Full details about this dataset can be found at https://doi.org/10.5285/be5639e9-75e9-4aa3-afdd-65ba80352591

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Metadata Language
English (en)
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Dataset Reference Date ()
2018-09-10
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/be5639e9-75e9-4aa3-afdd-65ba80352591
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/be5639e9-75e9-4aa3-afdd-65ba80352591
Other citation details
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 10.5285/be5639e9-75e9-4aa3-afdd-65ba80352591
  University of Salford - Dr. Paul Kendrick
  University of Salford - Kendrick, P.
  University of Salford - Barçante, L.
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Beresford, N.A.
  Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology - Gashchak, S.
  University of Salford - Wood, M.D.
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
  University of Salford
GEMET - INSPIRE themes, version 1.0 ()
  • Environmental Monitoring Facilities
GeoNames
  • Chernobyl Exclusion Zone
  • Ukraine
Keywords
  • Radioecology
  • birdsong
  • TREE
  • TRansfer - Exposure - Effects
  • COMET
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This resource is made available under the terms of the Open Government Licence
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© University of Salford
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If you reuse this data, you should cite: 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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Distance
100  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
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Begin date
2015-06-25
End date
2015-06-26
 
Code
WGS 84

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  • Waveform audio file ()

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Dataset Reference Date ()
2010-12-08
Statement
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.

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be5639e9-75e9-4aa3-afdd-65ba80352591 XML
Metadata Language
English (en)
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1)
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Metadata Date
2022-05-20T10:42:07
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
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Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
 
 

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