TY - JOUR
T1 - A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic
AU - Silent Cities project consortium
AU - Challéat, Samuel
AU - Farrugia, Nicolas
AU - Froidevaux, Jérémy S.P.
AU - Gasc, Amandine
AU - Pajusco, Nicolas
AU - Zina, Vera
AU - Puccherelli, Ignacio Zeballos
AU - Xie, Selena
AU - Wu, Yanchen
AU - Windsor, Fredric M.
AU - Whyte, Damion L.
AU - Wearn, Oliver R.
AU - Watson, Christopher J.
AU - Walton, William D.J.
AU - Vrignault, Jean Do
AU - Vivat, Agnés
AU - Vinet, Olivier
AU - Villén-Pérez, Sara
AU - Oliveras, Josep Vidal
AU - Victor, Pierre J.
AU - Ventrice, Gabriella
AU - Vega, Kevin
AU - Vargas Soto, Juan S.
AU - Ullrich, Paul A.
AU - Tuninetti, Amaro
AU - Townsend, Karina
AU - Tovar-Garca, Juan D.
AU - Todd, Marcela
AU - Thompson, Michelle E.
AU - Templeton, Christopher N.
AU - Tattersall, Fran
AU - Tarrant, Ian B.
AU - Sugai, Larissa S.M.
AU - Sueur, Jérôme
AU - Sourdril, Anne
AU - Soto-Navarro, Carolina
AU - Sinclair, Peter F.
AU - Simon, Victoire
AU - Silva, Bruno M.
AU - Sierra-Durán, Cárol
AU - Shepherd, Brenda
AU - Shaw, Taylor
AU - Serronha, Ana M.
AU - Segurado, Pedro
AU - Sebag, Mathilde Schoenauer
AU - Scherer-Lorenzen, Michael
AU - Schai-Braun, Stéphanie C.
AU - Savage, David
AU - Santos, José M.
AU - Beckmann, Christa
N1 - Publisher Copyright:
© The Author(s) 2024.
PY - 2024/12
Y1 - 2024/12
N2 - Political responses to the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in city soundscapes around the globe. From March to October 2020, a consortium of 261 contributors from 35 countries brought together by the Silent Cities project built a unique soundscape recordings collection to report on local acoustic changes in urban areas. We present this collection here, along with metadata including observational descriptions of the local areas from the contributors, open-source environmental data, open-source confinement levels and calculation of acoustic descriptors. We performed a technical validation of the dataset using statistical models run on a subset of manually annotated soundscapes. Results confirmed the large-scale usability of ecoacoustic indices and automatic sound event recognition in the Silent Cities soundscape collection. We expect this dataset to be useful for research in the multidisciplinary field of environmental sciences.
AB - Political responses to the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in city soundscapes around the globe. From March to October 2020, a consortium of 261 contributors from 35 countries brought together by the Silent Cities project built a unique soundscape recordings collection to report on local acoustic changes in urban areas. We present this collection here, along with metadata including observational descriptions of the local areas from the contributors, open-source environmental data, open-source confinement levels and calculation of acoustic descriptors. We performed a technical validation of the dataset using statistical models run on a subset of manually annotated soundscapes. Results confirmed the large-scale usability of ecoacoustic indices and automatic sound event recognition in the Silent Cities soundscape collection. We expect this dataset to be useful for research in the multidisciplinary field of environmental sciences.
UR - https://www.scopus.com/pages/publications/85202741609
U2 - 10.1038/s41597-024-03611-7
DO - 10.1038/s41597-024-03611-7
M3 - Article
C2 - 39191783
AN - SCOPUS:85202741609
SN - 2052-4463
VL - 11
JO - Scientific Data
JF - Scientific Data
IS - 1
M1 - 928
ER -
SDG 3 Good Health and Well-being