TY  - JOUR
AU  - Challéat, Samuel
AU  - Farrugia, Nicolas
AU  - Froidevaux, Jérémy S P
AU  - Gasc, Amandine
AU  - Pajusco, Nicolas
AU  - Silent Cities project consortium
AU  - Budinski, Ivana
PY  - 2024
UR  - http://radar.ibiss.bg.ac.rs/handle/123456789/7013
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.
PB  - Springer Nature
T2  - Scientific Data
T1  - A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic
IS  - 928
VL  - 11
DO  - 10.1038/s41597-024-03611-7
ER  - 

@article{
author = "Challéat, Samuel and Farrugia, Nicolas and Froidevaux, Jérémy S P and Gasc, Amandine and Pajusco, Nicolas and Silent Cities project consortium and Budinski, Ivana",
year = "2024",
abstract = "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.",
publisher = "Springer Nature",
journal = "Scientific Data",
title = "A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic",
number = "928",
volume = "11",
doi = "10.1038/s41597-024-03611-7"
}

Challéat, S., Farrugia, N., Froidevaux, J. S. P., Gasc, A., Pajusco, N., Silent Cities project consortium,& Budinski, I.. (2024). A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. in Scientific Data
Springer Nature., 11(928).
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03611-7

Challéat S, Farrugia N, Froidevaux JSP, Gasc A, Pajusco N, Silent Cities project consortium, Budinski I. A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. in Scientific Data. 2024;11(928).
doi:10.1038/s41597-024-03611-7 .

Challéat, Samuel, Farrugia, Nicolas, Froidevaux, Jérémy S P, Gasc, Amandine, Pajusco, Nicolas, Silent Cities project consortium, Budinski, Ivana, "A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic" in Scientific Data, 11, no. 928 (2024),
https://doi.org/10.1038/s41597-024-03611-7 . .