Long-Term Sound Recording in the Florida Everglades

Prior work describes the need for long-term ecological monitoring of a environmental data from a variety of sensors. Recent studies by Maher et al. (2005, 2009) motivate the value in similarly documenting natural sound environments in U.S. national parks on the order of years. Building on these ideas, we describe a pilot system capable of combined remote audio and environmental monitoring on the order of multiple years capable of wireless data transmission that is currently being tested in the Florida Everglades. We also present an audio data-analysis tool that has been developed for rapid data mining and locating of key sonic events.