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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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Date (Publication)
2018-09-10
Identifier
https://catalogue.ceh.ac.uk/id/be5639e9-75e9-4aa3-afdd-65ba80352591
Identifier
doi: / 10.5285/be5639e9-75e9-4aa3-afdd-65ba80352591
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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
Point of contact
  University of Salford - Kendrick, P.
Author
  University of Salford - Kendrick, P.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0714-183X
Author
  University of Salford - Barçante, L.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7462-7899
Author
  Centre for Ecology & Hydrology - Beresford, N.A.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-8722-0238
Author
  Chornobyl Center for Nuclear Safety, Radioactive Waste and Radioecology - Gashchak, S.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-7582-6742
Author
  University of Salford - Wood, M.D.
https://orcid.org/0000-0002-0635-2387
Custodian
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Publisher
  NERC Environmental Information Data Centre
Owner
  University of Salford
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  • Environmental Monitoring Facilities
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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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textTable Text, table
Distance
100  urn:ogc:def:uom:EPSG::9001
Metadata language
EnglishEnglish
Character set
utf8 UTF8
Topic category
  • Biota
  • Environment
Begin date
2015-06-25
End date
2015-06-26
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WGS 84
Distribution format
  • Waveform audio file ()

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  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
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Date (Publication)
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
EnglishEnglish
Character set
ISO/IEC 8859-1 (also known as Latin 1) 8859 Part 1
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Date stamp
2025-11-13T16:23:34
Metadata standard name
UK GEMINI
Metadata standard version
2.3
Point of contact
  NERC EDS Environmental Information Data Centre
Lancaster Environment Centre, Library Avenue, Bailrigg , Lancaster , LA1 4AP , UK
https://eidc.ac.uk/
 
 

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