Orcasound at the 2018 Hack to Give Thanks hackathon

Orcasound -- Listen for Whales

Scott Veirs, Orcasound Hydrophone Network

Hack to Give Thanks, November 17, 2018

Slides at: orcasound.net/data/talks/

Orcasound's network, new nodes and app

15 years of citizen scientists listening for whales in the Salish Sea

Thanks to the 2017 Kickstarter backers, plus our app key developers/designers to date, and the growing team of dedicated hackers: Paul Cretu, Skander Mzali, Steve Hicks, Tyler Crisafulli, Val Veirs, Nóra Mészáros, and Liam Reese
Beta-test at dev.orcasound.net!

Orcasound road map

App launched on Nov. 1, 2018 (above gray dashed line)

Legend: Live or prototyped | In development or beta-testing | Challenges available today!

Orcasound hackathon challenges

Back-end enhancements

Help Sam build admin interface (authentication, detection moderation, CMS, notification webhooks)
Continue development of real-time spectrogram generation
Use FLAC files to generate a time series of noise levels for each node.

Improve and test new UI/UX

Finish new HTML5 version of orca call catalog (old version)
Design and test UI/UX for citizen scientist interactivity ("I hear something" button)
Generate spectrograms and audio files for Zooniverse test project
Try embedding a marinetraffic.com map on the beta site
Improve profile of each node

Develop and test scheme for webhook registration and notifications via Twitter bot/etc.
Machine learning: implement architecture for machine learning; build training data set of killer whale signals
Refine and test the new upload script (Python/boto + RaspberryPi/Linux/Jack)