Description

Echo Meter Touch is an innovative combination of hardware and software that lets you record and listen to bat calls in real-time – on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.

Echo Meter Touch is an innovative combination of hardware and software that lets you record and listen to bat calls in real-time – on your iPad, iPhone or iPod touch.
Built-in Kaleidoscope classifiers suggest the top bat species match in real-time.
Data is displayed real-time via information-rich, highly configurable, full-color spectrograms.
GPS enabled devices tag each recording with exact location.
Recordings can easily be transferred to any computer for further analysis and reporting.

This tool is recommended for lending libraries.

Used by these projects
Acoustic Bat Monitoring

Ideal Age Group

Elementary school (6 – 10 years), Middle school (11 – 13 years), High school (14 – 17 years), College, Graduate students, Adults, Families, Seniors

(Students simply plug the Echo Meter Touch module into the compatible iOS device (iPhone, iPod, iPad) via the lightning connector port and select “start” on the screen. From there, students will see bat echolocations on the screen if there are bats flying in the sky. If the user chooses to record, the app will identify bat species and keep the recordings in the app for analysis. The recorded files can be shared to other users or uploaded to a computer for analysis and reporting.)

Training

Learning materials are available online.

Size & weight

Small: This tool would fit in a 6 inch cube.

Less than 13oz (a full soda can weighs a little less than 13oz)

Expected lifetime
Should last more or less forever

Topics
Climate & Weather, Science Policy, Education, Nature & Outdoors, Animals, Computers & Technology, Sound, Biology, Ecology & Environment, Physics, Agriculture, Insects & Pollinators

Activities
On a hike, In the car, On a walk, run, At school, At a science center, zoo or aquarium, At night

Tool updated
June 25, 2017, 11:29 a.m.