Echo Meter Touch 2 Bat Detector for ANDROID

Product Information

The interesting thing, about the issues in the above list of Cons, is that at least two of them can (and may) be reconciled via firmware updates. Specifically, the Microphone sensitivity adjustment and Trigger threshold setting. Once again, it's hard to ignore the flexibility (and possibilities) of The Echo Meter Touch. Cannot charge/plug-in The iPad while the EM Touch is in use - There would be an advantage to this: Whenever the Echo Meter Touch is used from inside a house.The microphone sensitivity cannot be adjusted.The Trigger threshold cannot be modified/set. A. The Echo Meter Touch 2 Pro requires an Android device with a micro-USH connector. USB-C devices require the use of an adapter.

The SMM-U2 is a much improved (on the SMM-U1) highly sensitive, low noise ultrasonic microphone, designed for recording ultrasound up to 190 kHz. The SMM-U2 is a powered microphone and can be used with up to 100 meters of cable with no attenuation or degradation. The microphone has a differential output which significantly reduces noise from electromagnetic sources. The omnidirectional SMM-U2 is ideal for unattended monitoring where the precise direction of bat activity is not known in advance.The SMM-U2 Ultrasonic microphone comes with a 5 metre cable. There are more than 1,400 species of bats in the world with more than 40 here in the United States. So how can a bat detector tell what type of bat is flying overhead? Through a combination of solid scientific research, lots of ultrasonic recordings of bat echolocations, and some high tech digital analysis. Using complex, proprietary algorithms, Wildlife Acoustics researchers create “classifiers” to match the most likely species to a recording of a bat’s echolocation pulses. Hundreds of thousands of Mexican free-tailed bats swarm out of Carlsbad Caverns, NM on a summer night. The SM4BAT FS is a full spectrum detector for passive surveying use. Robust and weatherproof, it will record 16-bit full spectrum calls and can store up to 512GB of data. A versatile scheduling function allows you to set when you want to record and the battery can last up to 450 hours. The SM4BAT FS is easy to fit to a tree or post and is compatible with a variety of accessories such as GPS unit and microphone extension cables. The SMM-U2 ultrasonic microphone is available with the SM4BAT FS and is a highly sensitive microphone that produces high quality, low noise bat recordings over long distances. Easy to set up and producing detailed call recordings for analysis, the SM4BAT FS is ideal for unattended use in the field. Anabat SwiftIt’s easy to add a note to a recording by typing it or simply recording your voice. I use it to add info about where I recorded it like “Super 8, Barstow, CA”. For the enthusiast, the cost of a compatible Apple device and the Touch might be prohibitive. But for the professional bat worker I’d say it’s a no brainer. Android OS version 8.0 or later (the app will not load on devices running any version of Android Go)

Combined with the Ultrasonic Module, the Echo Meter Touch app has everything you need to monitor, record and identify bats in the field. When considering the prospect, of performing your bat detecting in the field: You must use your discretion, and common sense. The SMM-U1 is a highly sensitive, low noise ultrasonic microphone, designed for recording ultrasound up to 190 kHz. The SMM-U1 is a powered microphone and can be used with up to 100 meters of cable with no attenuation or degradation. The microphone has a differential output which significantly reduces noise from electromagnetic sources. The omnidirectional SMM-U1 is ideal for unattended monitoring where the precise direction of bat activity is not known in advance.The SMM-U1 Ultrasonic microphone comes with a 3 meter cable. As devices become older, they may have increased difficulty running EMT2 with newer versions of the app or OS updates, so we reserve the right to remove devices from the list. We are going to build a database of sonograms and oscillograms for different bat species an publish them online for anyone to use and learn from. If you would like to contribute to this, just tweet your screen shot to @SuperFastSurvey, or mail it directly to cf (@)arbtech.co.uk – remembering to remove the parentheses! We’ll credit you as the owner of the image and if you wish to write anything to provide some context, we’ll include that too.My bat detector microphone failed during a dawn survey and knew that I had a group of dusk surveys starting in two days time. I was not in a good place as I did not have a spare, but my equipment was less than a year old. This new edition contains: foreward by Michel Barataud, author of Acoustic Ecology of European Bats; almost double the number of figures and tables as the first edition; completely overhauled call library, all in full spectrum, with new examples; three entirely new chapters, covering bat-related acoustics, settings for social interactions, and survey guidelines. The EM Touch allows a user (even a youngster!) to: Detect, Record, View the Spectrogram of, and Identify said bat, down to species. I'd say this pretty much runs the gamut of what one may even expect from a bat detector in 2014.

The screen display on the iPad mini (at least) is great and prevents the eyes getting too tried over a long day. Are you a beginner to bat detecting or looking for a detector for your students? Why not take a look at the Echo Meter Touch 2? Wildlife Acoustics is a big name in the world of wildlife audio research and they’ve built some of the most advanced wildlife sound identification software available. One of Wildlife Acoustics software products is called Kaleidoscope Pro Bat Auto ID. They’ve developed classifiers for 38 bat species in North America, which covers almost every species you’re likely to hear. But they’re also constantly adding to their list of classifiers for other regions of the world. At the time of writing they created classifiers for 37 species in the UK & Europe, 37 Neotropical species, and 21 in South Africa. You can see a complete list of species here. The intuitive EMT2 lets you listen to, record and identify bats by their ultrasonic echolocation calls, using your Android device via the Echo Meter Touch App. This hand-held detector provides outdoor enthusiasts, citizen scientists, and researchers an affordable and informative way to reveal the somewhat invisible world of bats.The book covers topics such as the properties of sound; how bats use sound; bat detection methods; recording devices; analysis software; recording techniques and call analysis. For each species found in the British Isles, information is given on distribution; emergence times; flight and foraging behaviour; habitat; and echolocation including parameters for common measurements. Calls are described in the context of the different technologies used (heterodyne, frequency division and time expansion). Various spectrograms are displayed for each species using examples from both BatSound and AnaLook. An echolocation key is included with the book. When using in conjunction with an Android device with a USB-C connector, an adapter will be required. As of 2021 these are now included for free with all Android Echo Meters, an addition we are sure will be greatly appreciated by customers going forward. The Explorer Premium Digital Endoscope is lightweight and easy to operate. It can record still images or video on to a microSD / microSDHC card (not included). The screen can be detached whilst the camera is in operation and viewed up to 10m away. The camera head has a diameter of 9mm and the cable is 91cm long, giving easy access to nest boxes, burrows, nests, crevices etc. Lighting levels can be adjusted to minimise disturbance to animals. Accessories A comprehensive guide to the calls of the 44 species of bat currently known to occur in Europe. Following on from the popular British Bat Calls by Jon Russ, this new book draws on the expertise of more than forty specialist authors to substantially update all sections, further expanding the volume to include sound analysis and species identification of all European bats.

A series of sharp, descending chirps, repeated in clusters. Someone was preparing to exit the box! I hit the manual recording button (which starts recording 5 seconds in the past so you don’t miss anything) and looked up. The chirps became louder and faster and then, right before my eyes, a bat descended from the box and swooped up over my head into the gloomy dusk. Woo hoo! Personally, I think is cheating and is of somewhat questionable value. But, I should stress I haven’t opted to try this yet and am keeping an open mind (we will update this review once we’ve had a chance to test the Kaleidoscope Pro feature). Available as a mic cable for use with existing SMX microphone, or as a kit including SMX microphone and cable. If you already have a compatible Android device, it's a no-brainer, but even if you haven't it's well worth considering - compatibility list below.In layman's terms - I now wonder how I ever got along without one! An Apple iPad, that is. In short, I've found The iPad mini Retina to easily outperform my (usual) Asus mini-notebook; in just about every aspect. The SMM-U1 is a highly sensitive, low noise ultrasonic microphone, designed for recording ultrasound up to 190 kHz. The SMM-U1 is a powered microphone and can be used with up to 100 meters of cable with no attenuation or degradation. The microphone has a differential output which significantly reduces noise from electromagnetic sources. The omnidirectional SMM-U1 is ideal for unattended monitoring where the precise direction of bat activity is not known in advance.The SMM-U1 Ultrasonic microphone comes with a 3 metre cable.