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Ionospheric Narrowband and Wideband HF Soundings for Communications Purposes: A Review
(MDPI, 2020-04)
High Frequency (HF) communications through ionospheric reflection is a widely usedtechnique specifically for maritime, aeronautical, and emergency services communication withremote areas due ...
Pipistrellus pipistrellus and Pipistrellus pygmaeus in the Iberian Peninsula: An Annotated Segmented Dataset and a Proof of Concept of a Classifier in a Real Environment
(MDPI, 2019-08)
Bats have an important role in the ecosystem, and therefore an effective detection of their prevalence can contribute to their conservation. At present, the most commonly methodology used in the study ...
Noise Events Monitoring for Urban and Mobility Planning in Andorra la Vella and Escaldes-Engordany
(MDPI, 2019-03)
Noise pollution is a critical factor and it has an important impact on public health, with the relationship between road traffic noise (RTN) and several illnesses in urban areas of particular concern. ...
Towards Automatic Bird Detection: An Annotated and Segmented Acoustic Dataset of Seven Picidae Species
(MDPI, 2017-03)
Analysing behavioural patterns of bird species in a certain region enables researchers to recognize forthcoming changes in environment, ecology, and population. Ornithologists spend many hours observing ...
Real-Time Distributed Architecture for Remote Acoustic Elderly Monitoring in Residential-Scale Ambient Assisted Living Scenarios
(MDPI, 2018-08)
Ambient Assisted Living (AAL) has become a powerful alternative to improving the life quality of elderly and partially dependent people in their own living environments. In this regard, tele-care and ...
Design of a Mobile Low-Cost Sensor Network Using Urban Buses for Real-Time Ubiquitous Noise Monitoring
(MDPI, 2016-12)
One of the main priorities of smart cities is improving the quality of life of their inhabitants. Traffic noise is one of the pollutant sources that causes a negative impact on the quality of life of ...
Analysis and Acoustic Event Classification of Environmental Data Collected in a Citizen Science Project
(MDPI : Molecular Diversity Preservation International, 2023-02-19)
Citizen science can serve as a tool to obtain information about changes in the soundscape. One of the challenges of citizen science projects is the processing of data gathered by the citizens, to obtain ...
BCNDataset: Description and Analysis of an Annotated Night Urban Leisure Sound Dataset
(MDPI, 2020-10)
Acoustic pollution has been associated with adverse effects on the health and life expectancy of people, especially when noise exposure happens during the nighttime. With over half of the world population ...
WASN-Based Day–Night Characterization of Urban Anomalous Noise Events in Narrow and Wide Streets
(MDPI, 2020-08)
In addition to air pollution, environmental noise has become one of the major hazards for citizens, being Road Traffic Noise (RTN) as its main source in urban areas. Recently, low-cost Wireless Acoustic ...
Review of Wireless Acoustic Sensor Networks for Environmental Noise Monitoring in Smart Cities
(Hindawi, 2019-05)
Nowadays, more than half of the world’s population lives in urban areas. Since this proportion is expected to keep rising, the sustainable development of cities is of paramount importance to guarantee ...