Dear MARMAM community,

 

I am pleased to share a recent software publication "respdetect: A Matlab tool for detecting breath events from whale biologger data" in the Journal of Open Source Software.

Blawas, A. M. (2025). respdetect: A Matlab tool for detecting breath events from whale biologger data. Journal of Open Source Software, 10(114), 7858. Https://doi.org/10.21105/joss.07858

Summary: Respdetect is a MATLAB toolkit to detect respirations in whale DTAG or CATS tag records. The tools are especially useful for detecting respiration events using movement signatures in logging whales, in addition to single-breath surfacings. Respdetect exports the locations and type (single-breath surfacing or logging) of all detected breaths.

 

Please feel free to reach out if you have any questions or issues with the software.

 

Best,

Ashley

 

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Ashley Blawas, Ph.D. 

Postdoctoral Researcher | Goldbogen Lab

Hopkins Marine Station of Stanford University

ashleyblawas@stanford.edu | 919-880-4208 | she/her/hers