La Tour du Valat

Institut de recherche pour la conservation des zones humides méditerranéennes

Titre :	Utilizing the Cyberforest live sound system with social media to remotely conduct woodland bird censuses in Central Japan
Auteurs :	Kaoru Saito, Auteur ; Kazuhiko Nakamura, Auteur ; Mutsuyuki Ueta, Auteur ; Reiko Kurosawa, Auteur ; Akio Fujiwara, Auteur ; Hill Hiroki Kobayashi, Auteur ; Masaya Nakayama, Auteur ; Ayako Toko, Auteur ; Kazuyo Nagahama, Auteur
Type de document :	Article
Dans :	AMBIO (44(7) NOV 2015)
Article en page(s) :	S572-S583
Langues:	Anglais
Résumé :	We have developed a system that streams and archives live sound from remote areas across Japan via an unmanned automatic camera. The system was used to carry out pilot bird censuses in woodland; this allowed us to examine the use of live sound transmission and the role of social media as a mediator in remote scientific monitoring. The system has been streaming sounds 8 h per day for more than five years. We demonstrated that: (1) the transmission of live sound from a remote woodland could be used effectively to monitor birds in a remote location; (2) the simultaneous involvement of several participants via Internet Relay Chat to listen to live sound transmissions could enhance the accuracy of census data collection; and (3) interactions through Twitter allowed members of the public to engage or help with the remote monitoring of birds and experience inaccessible nature through the use of novel technologies.

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