BB838: Basic bioacoustics and signal analysis

This class introduces important mathematical and physical principles of bioacoustics. Programming exercises are used to give the students a basic understanding for the logic of the theoretical material as well as of how to solve computational problems themselves. The programming language used in the course is Matlab and thus example code snippets are given in Matlab. However, the introduced principles and signal analysis concepts are of general nature and can be implemented in most modern programming languages such as R, Python, etc. The course consists of a series of introductory lectures followed by programming tutorials leading up to a final assignment where the students are asked to record and analyze an animal vocalization. Students are free to choose any animal to record for their final assignment but are explicitly invited to record study animals of the Sound Communication and Behaviour Group which are birds, frogs, bats and toothed whales. 

Programming (Matlab):

●Introductory programming

●Writing scripts and functions

●Importing and analyzing acoustic data

●Programming Matlab with GUIs

Mathematics:

●Basic linear and logarithmic machinery

●Fourier analysis

●Filters

Physics (acoustics):

●Near and far fields

●Calibrated sound level measurements

●Transmission loss

●Refraction

●Reflections

●Transmission from one media to another

At the faculty of science, teaching is organized after the three-phase model ie. intro, training and study phase.

●Intro phase: 20 hours

●Skills training phase: 20 hours, hereof exercises classes: 20 hours

Activities for the study phase: solve programming tasks with Matlab by utilizing provided code snippets and tips in the compendium and from the lecture slides.

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