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Re:A New species of whale has been discovered off the wester... by Zenst on Saturday December 12, 2020 @12:49PM (#25400040)
Been a lot of headway in the past decade in Passive Audio Monitoring, which is opening up a whole new view of the environments, like the sea. The whole aspect of cheaper tech to make such a set-up is also opening this realm up more to civilian use.

https://www.pamguard.org/ https://www.wwf.org.uk/project/conservationtechnology/acoust...

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Re:A New species of whale has been discovered off the wester... by readicculus on Saturday December 12, 2020 @02:02PM (#25400562)
That and ai, manually combing through 50tb of audio data was previously not possible. Have a colleague who just finished up a project detecting these sorts of signals using CNNs, forget what species he was looking at, but results were quite good.
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