The use of Passive Acoustic
Monitoring (PAM) is becoming an increasingly important tool in both marine
mammal research and applied in industry.
It is important that individuals using
any passive acoustic monitoring software are properly trained to use the software
to maximise its full potential. Feedback from users is also important in the
ongoing development of such software.
PAMGUARD is currently funded by the OGP E&P Sound and
Marine Life Joint Industry Program, and has been established to address the
fundamental limitations of existing cetacean passive acoustic monitoring (PAM)
software capabilities. PAMGUARD seeks to provide open-source PAM software based
on a platform-independent (e.g. Windows or Linux), flexible, modular
architecture. The open-source aspect of software development is
facilitated through the project's presence on SourceForge, where a community of
altruistic developers provides extra resources. This community currently
includes developers with proven PAM experience from both the UK and the USA.
Open development means that the software is free and access to the code is easy
and assured. It also allows the code's copyright to be protected in perpetuity
so that it cannot readily be closed and commercialised to the detriment of its
users. It ultimately means that more people have access for development. This
generally speeds up innovations and improves the performance and
maintainability of the code.
SMRU Ltd are running a PAMGUARD Training
course on the 10th and 11th November 2009, in St Andrews.
There are still some places available on this course.
The course will be lead by
Doug Gillespie of St Andrews University, one of the principle architects of the
Pamguard software.
If you are interested in attending the course please see the
Pamguard website for further details:
http://www.pamguard.org/training.shtml
Best wishes
Beth
Dr
Beth Mackey
SMRU
Limited
Scottish
Oceans Institute
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