AUSTRALIAN ACOUSTIC OBSERVATORY
Photo: QUT Ecoacoustics Staff
Who Are We?
Welcome! Australian Acoustic Observatory is a repository of environmental audio recordings. This website facilitates the management, access, visualization, and analysis of environmental acoustic data. It uses the Acoustic Workbench software which is is open source and available from GitHub.
The website is run by QUT Ecoacoustics to support bioacoustics and ecoacoustics research.
What We Do
Our Goal
We host, manage, explore, and visualize ecoacoustic data. Providing the results and tools we develope free of charge to anyone who is interested
Environment
We locate various environments which may have interesting or important faunal vocalisations and other human-audible environmental sounds
Acoustics Sensors
We, and our partners, place acoustic sensors in a wide range of environments allowing us to study the local fauna
Annotated Spectrogram
Practical identification of animal sounds by people and automated detectors. Ecologists use these to answer environmental questions.
Collaboration
Finally, we make the results of our research, and the tools we have developed, available to the public
View Some Sites
You can browse some public sites and audio recordings without logging in. To participate in the analysis work you will need to log in with an existing account or register for a new account. Don't worry its free and easy!
Minjerribah
Minjerribah is a large sand island of approximately 38 km long and 11 km wide off the coast of Brisbane, Queensland. The Quandamooka people of Minjerribah have a strong and persisting connection to the island...
Fletcherview Research Station
Fletcherview Research Station is a fully functioning cattle station which also supports a wide variety of flora and fauna. The station covers 1960 hectares across black and red basalt soils, and alluvial river flats, and...
Kangaroo Island
Kangaroo Island is a large island off the coast of South Australia dominated by woodland. Approximately half of Kangaroo Island has never been cleared and a quarter of it is conserved. The island is home...
Sponsors
This work has been supported through several grants. The most recent of which is the ARDC Platforms project. Open Ecoacoustics currently sponsors development of the workbench thanks to the ARDC Platforms project. See doi.org/10.47486/PL050 for more details.
