{"id":13074,"date":"2015-08-04T16:54:23","date_gmt":"2015-08-04T15:54:23","guid":{"rendered":"http:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13074"},"modified":"2015-08-04T21:20:28","modified_gmt":"2015-08-04T20:20:28","slug":"marine-ecology-monitoring-using-the-raspberry-pi","status":"publish","type":"post","link":"https:\/\/www.recantha.co.uk\/blog\/?p=13074","title":{"rendered":"Marine ecology monitoring using the Raspberry Pi"},"content":{"rendered":"<p><img data-recalc-dims=\"1\" loading=\"lazy\" decoding=\"async\" class=\"alignnone\" src=\"https:\/\/i0.wp.com\/www.raspberrypi.org\/wp-content\/uploads\/2015\/08\/Underwater-recorder-327x700.png?resize=327%2C700&#038;ssl=1\" alt=\"\" width=\"327\" height=\"700\" \/><\/p>\n<p>A team from the\u00a0University of S\u00e3o Paulo in Brazil have developed an open-source solution for monitoring marine habitats. The device, known as a\u00a0<a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0130297\" target=\"_blank\">Passive Acoustic Monitoring device<\/a>,\u00a0is a sonic spectrometer which measures underwater audio signals and records them, thus allowing researchers to analyse the data and detect both marine wildlife and human-made sound disturbances. The device, which uses a Raspberry Pi model A to record data onto an 128GB SD card, costs an estimated $500, which is about a 1\/6th of the cost of other commercial\u00a0offerings. <a href=\"https:\/\/www.raspberrypi.org\/blog\/underwater-recording\/\" target=\"_blank\">Read more about this over at the Raspberry Pi Foundation<\/a> or <a href=\"http:\/\/journals.plos.org\/plosone\/article?id=10.1371\/journal.pone.0130297\" target=\"_blank\">read the original paper from the Brazillians<\/a>.<\/p>\n","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"<p>A team from the\u00a0University of S\u00e3o Paulo in Brazil have developed an open-source solution for monitoring marine habitats. 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