The Stationary Acoustic Working Group has several ranked priorities:

• Providing guidance for choosing appropriate auto-classifiers (range maps, buffers, etc.)

• Providing guidance on how to process large volumes of data

• Compiling regional lists of species which have overlapping acoustic characters

• Ranking habitat features by species

• Providing guidance on the process of manual vetting

• Estimating the full cost of stationary acoustic monitoring

• Studying detection probabilities with clutter

• Creating a pros and cons document for full-spectrum vs zero-cross data collection

• Establishing methods for keeping detectors safe and secure from humans/animals/weather

• Making recommendations for working with private landowners

Point of contact: Ted Weller Theodore.Weller@usda.gov