Preface

How to use this guide

For new users, we suggest reading all of the sections Basic Use and Advanced Features. The section Analysis Formulas and Code holds the more technical details on how exactly each result is calculated.

About paPAMv2

First off, thanks for taking a look at paPAMv2. This software has been a years-long side project which kicked off as a response to the lack of accessible acoustic analysis tools for those of us working in the field of underwater bioacoustics. Broadly speaking, we have three goals with paPAMv2: (1) Provide acoustic analysis tools specifically tailored for the biologist members of the underwater bioacoustics community, (2) encourage common standards for reporting and analysis.

For encouraging common standards, all output of paPAMv2 is formatted according to the guidelines proposed in Nedelec et al (2021).

The name paPAMv2 comes from: particle acceleration - passive acoustic monitoring. paPAM started out as a modest MATLAB-based application published in Nedelec et al. (2016) as part of a PhD thesis. paPAMv2 is the successor to paPAM and has been rewritten in Python & Cython, exclusively utilizing open tool sets.

paPAMv2 is open source and licensed under GPL-3. See the folder NOTICES on the gitlab repository, or check About -> Licences in the paPAMv2 app, to see a list of the licensed software used to build this program.

  • Nedelec, S.L., Campbell, J., Radford, A.N., Simpson, S.D. and Merchant, N.D. (2016), Particle motion: the missing link in underwater acoustic ecology. Methods Ecol Evol, 7: 836-842. https://doi.org/10.1111/2041-210X.12544

  • Nedelec, SL, MA Ainslie, MH Andersson, Cheong SH, MB Halvorsen, M Linné, B Martin, A Nöjd,S Robinson, SD Simpson, L Wang, J Ward. 2021. Best Practice Guide for Underwater Particle MotionMeasurement for Biological Applications. Technical report by the University of Exeter for the IOGPMarine Sound and Life Joint Industry Programme.