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Please note that downloads will now be directly from the http://www.pamguard.org site and no longer from sourceforge. This will enable us to collect better usage statistics for PAMGuard

.Version Beta 1.11.01 is now available for download from an updated PAMGuard website at http://www.pamguard.org.

New modules include the ROCCA Whistle Classifier, Noise Measurement and user configurable data entry forms based on the Logger 2000 software. We have also made extensive additions to the offline analysis capabilities of the PAMGuard click detector, implementing the functionality previously contained within RainbowClick and have also implemented a system for offline target motion analysis. Further details are available in the download area of the PAMGuard web site and in the online help (available once the software is installed).

PAMGUARD Beta 1.4.00 is now available. The current file (Setup-PamguardBETA_Win32.exe) is a Windows only installer. Mac and Linux versions will be released shortly.

Important new features include the first release of the PAMGUARD viewer and PAMGUARD mixed mode operation. Install the software and view the help file for details.

All the features of Core release 1.3.00 + a visual methods modules group including video range tracking software for distance measurement + lots more !

New likelihood detection module.

Also, considerable improvement in speed and stability and much better help files than previous versions.

PAMGUARD Beta 1.2.00 released.
Users are recommended to use this in preference to either of the core or beta 1.1.01 releases.
1.2.00 includes many bug fixes and new features, including multi-threading and support for National Instruments DAQ cards.

New release including Windows installers.

The pamguard-general mail list has not been used since December 2005 and has now been deleted.

I have set up two new PAMGUARD mail lists, pamguard-user and pamguard-developer. Links to the subscription pages for these lists can be found on the PAMGUARD web site at http://www.pamguard.org/contact.shtml. Please join whichever lists you feel are appropriate to you.

Douglas

-Asio Sound Card Multiple Channel Selection
-Viewer and Mixed mode operation
-Vessel Display
-Updated online help

-Asio Sound Card Multiple Channel Selection
-Viewer and Mixed mode operation
-Vessel Display
-Updated online help

Pamguard starts two releases, core and beta release, this is the Core release

-Ishmael detection and localization methods
-Better display
-Multi animal click tracking with least squares fit calculation of position on map
-Whistle detector multi channel tracking and localisation.
-Sound playback
-Configuration storage to database
-Signal Patch Panel
-Default module naming and exclusive module naming
-Signal Amplifier
-IIRF (Butterworth and Chebychev) filters
-Offline file analysis
-Map (and other display) symbol keys
-Map Comments

Pamguard starts two releases, core and beta release, this is the beta release

-3D module
-Ishmael detection and localization methods
-Better display
-Multi animal click tracking with least squares fit calculation of position on map
-Whistle detector multi channel tracking and localisation.
-Sound playback
-Configuration storage to database
-Signal Patch Panel
-Default module naming and exclusive module naming
-Signal Amplifier
-IIRF (Butterworth and Chebychev) filters
-Offline file analysis
-Map (and other display) symbol keys
-Map Comments

The PamGuard Team are please to anounce the latest release of the PamGuard application. Significant enhancements include:

-A model manager and profiler, whereby users can add/remove modules as required.

-Modules now include configurable click and whistle detectors and Ishmael-type detectors and localisers.

-Information from above modules can be displayed on configurable user displays which support real time scrolling spectrograms and radar displays. ... read more

On July 31, 2006 the Pamguard project was part of a research cruise aboard the NOAA vessel Delaware II. The scientific staff also included a visual team of marine mammologists. The 155-foot vessel set out from Woods Hole on a 4-day round trip. During the cruise, experiments were conducted with a multi-element array with pingers deployed on two buoys (with GPS units and depth sensors also attached) in order to test detection and localization algorithms.

Notes: Release :0.03b 18/08/06. - This release is the first version to have been used in a real 'at sea' environment. Two element data acquired through standard PC audio cards, providing sperm whale click detection and dolphin whistle detection. Installation and user guides are now in development and will appear here soon.

Follow the exploits of David and Paul as they test PAMGUARD at sea (http://www.pamguard.org/darwinCruise.shtml).

A significant new version PAMGUARD has just been released here, on the sourceforge site.

You can now find a map view, configurable spectrograms, GPS functionality, user and event logging, as well as click and whistle detection.

There's a lot of work still to do and more excellent feedback from users would be much appreciated.

A working prototype of PAMGUARD was successfully demonstrated at the 2nd International Workshop on Detection and Localization of Marine Mammals using Passive Acoustics in Monaco in November. Feedback from delegates was positive and supportive.

The vision for the PAMGUARD initiative:

To address the fundamental limitations of existing cetacean passive acoustic monitoring (PAM) software capabilities by creating an integrated PAM software infrastructure that is open source and available to all PAM users for the benefit of the marine environment.

PAMGUARD development has been funded through 2005 and will:

* Provide a flexible, modular software framework with basic application functionality comparable to popular existing PAM software (e.g. Ishmael, Rainbow Click, Logger) that is capable of working on multiple operating systems (e.g. Windows/Linux) and has the ability to incorporate new modules as they are developed to include additional detection, localisation, classification and sound visualisation functionalities.... read more

This first release features:

- Detection algorithm (code name D1),
- Localisation algorithm (code name L1),
- Simple text-based GUI giving text output of detections and their bearings,
- Input file names...

An audio .wav file is supplied which contains sperm-whale vocalisations such as clicks and codas. These clicks are detected and subsequently localised the results are displayed in a basic text GUI. Other .wav files can also be analysed by using the correct command line argument.

We've added pamsim (a matlab simulator) for folk to play with. There will be Java code soon which can be used in conjunction with it.

We are busy getting the first prototype ready for field trials in the Gulf of Mexico this summer, and are planning to have the first formal release (executables, source and docuementation) available here by July.