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ARBIMON (Automated Remote Biodiversity Monitoring Network)

acoustics bioacoustics biodiversity forest monitoring machine learning monitoring platform

ARBIMON (Automated Remote Biodiversity Monitoring Network) is a cloud-based platform for storing and analysing audio recordings, and an important early conservation eco-acoustics venture. It was co-founded by Mitch Aide and colleagues at the University of Puerto Rico-Rio Piedras. Now associated with Rainforest Connection, the ARBIMON system is the basis for a variety of eco-acoustical studies (including frogs, insects, birds , and monkeys), the vast majority within forested conservation areas in Latin America.

ARBIMON Platform

ARBIMON
Diagram of ARBIMON data acquisition. Image source: Aide et al. (2013) [diagram]. Retrieved 28 March 2022, from https://peerj.com/articles/103/

The original ARBIMON website allowed users to view, listen, and annotate audio recordings, and featured a tool to help users create machine learning algorithms to automate species identification . Subsequent iterations, including the newer Rainforest Connection ARBIMON platform , have increasingly sophisticated tools for pattern matching audio data and analysing soundscapes.

ARBIMON_RCFx
Screenshot of a data visualisation spectogram from the RCFx Tembé Brazil Project. Image source: ARBIMON / RCFx [screenshot]. Retrieved 28 June 2022, from https://arbimon.rfcx.org/project/rfcx-temb-brazil-project/visualizer/rec/28434613

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