Used for real-time field data collection efforts and post processing of instrument collected recordings.
Standardize Post Processing methods for data to be run through BANTER.
Click Detector Module
Click Size
Bearing Time Display –> Right click –> Settings
Set the click size to equal values so that the icons are not distorted (ex. Click length 8 x 8 & Click height 8 x 8.
Click Waveform Display
Right click on the display
Set bin: Constant Time Scale
Click Spectrum
Right click on the display
Check “Log Scale” with 20 to 30 dB of range
Check Smooth Data with 13, 21, or 31 (number must be odd)
Wigner Plot
Click Detector –> Add Display –> Wigner Plot
Useful for looking at spectrograms of individual echolocation signals
Zoom feature: place the cursor in the spectrogram window and scroll upwards with the mouse scroll wheel
IDI Histogram (Inter Detection Interval)
Click Detector –> Add Display –> IDI Histogram
Best used for volumetric arrays to show animals ascending to the surface
Click Detection Parameters
Click Length
Min Click Separation is the (array separation in meters/speed of sound * sampling rate); Max Click Length need to be the total of the Pre sample & Post Samples
Single Hydrophone Settings (Min Click Separation = 100, Max Click Length = 600, Pre sample = 200, Post Samples = 400)
Two Hydrophones Settings - 1 meter spacing, 250ks (Min Click Separation = 326, Max Click Length = 1200, Pre sample = 400, Post Samples = 800) Bumped up Min Click Separation to deal with noisier environments.
Two Hydrophones Settings - 10 meter spacing, 348ks (Min Click Separation = 1000, Max Click Length = 10000, Pre sample = 5000, Post Samples = 5000)
PAMGuard Viewer Mode
Used for viewing and annotating acoustic data processed in PAMGuard.exe
Required modules for Viewer Mode are Database & Binaries
Click Detector Module
Click Size
Bearing Time Display –> Right click –> Settings
Set the click size to equal values so that the icons are not distorted (ex. Click length 8 x 8 & Click height 8 x 8.
Data will populated once signals are grouped into an “Event” and then select one.
Right click on the display and select “normalize” to better view your data
Trigger
Window no longer needed in Viewer Mode and can be closed out to save space
Events - Lookup (table)
Download SQLiteStudio and use it to edit and extract data from .sqlite3 files
Open a database that contains a fully populated Lookup table for your species, copy it, and paste it into your new database by right clicking on the word “Tables” in the new database. This will allow you to make Events within PAMGuard using the same species codes without entering them one by one each time.
PAMGuard Mixed Mode
A version of PAMGuard.exe that allows the user to apply a previously collected GPS track to run real-time field data at you desk.
