Echo Meter Touch Bat Detector vs Tonight Above You

Using the Echo Meter Touch 2 Pro plug-in module, this app allows you to listen to record and automatically identify bats by their ultrasonic echolocation calls. The module and this companion app reveal the silent and often times invisible world of bats, providing outdoor enthusiasts, citizen scientists, and researchers an affordable and informative way to interact with these important creatures. There are two models: Echo Meter Touch 2 (EMT 2) is intended for nature enthusiasts and batting hobbyists and Echo Meter Touch 2 Pro is designed for bat professionals and features a higher quality microphone, adjustable gain, and higher sample rate. The Echo Meter Touch Ultrasonic Module senses ultrasonic signals, digitizes the signal, and transmits the ultrasonic data to the app on your iOS device. LISTEN TO BAT’S ECHOLOCATIONS EMT2 translates bat echolocations into frequencies that are audible to humans using two technologies. Wildlife Acoustics’ patented Real Time Expansion (RTE) allows you to listen to bats in real time with unparalleled fidelity. RTE maintains the timing and tonality of the original echolocations. Heterodyne (HET) listening via manual and automatic tuning is also available, for those accustomed to that way of hearing bats. VIEW THE ECHOLOCATIONS ON A SPECTROGRAM A real-time spectrogram shows the frequencies and timing of the echolocations. Scroll back in time and zoom in on previous "bat passes." SEE MOST LIKELY BAT SPECIES IN REAL-TIME*** The Auto ID feature analyzes the echolocation calls and suggests the two most likely bat species matches in real time. This is the same technology used in our professional Kaleidoscope Pro Bat Auto Identification software. Currently, the app can identify 26 species in North America, 25 in Europe and 57 in the neotropics. For more information on Kaleidoscope and a full list of species, visit our website. RECORD .WAV FILES Activate triggered recording mode to automatically save bat passes to full spectrum .wav files for analysis on a computer or to view on your iDevice. Or use manual record mode to control start and stop of recording. View the recording spectrogram and add voice or text notes. Listen to the recording using RTE, HET, or traditional Time Expansion Playback (playback at fractional speed to make the ultrasound audible). SEE YOUR PATH AND RECORDING LOCATIONS View in satellite or road map view. View identified species codes directly on the map. Go to the recording's spectrogram from the map view. Transfer to your computer to view in Google Earth. Your iDevice must have GPS capability or you must use a Bluetooth GPS receiver for this functionality. *Continued use of GPS running in the background can dramatically decrease battery life.* TRANSFER RECORDINGS TO YOUR COMPUTER The EMT 2 can transfer the .wav recordings to your computer over a Wi-Fi network or using a USB cable. SHARE RECORDINGS VIA EMAIL OR MMS MESSAGING And import and open files that have been shared with you. ***Because bats vary their echolocation calls in response to a wide variety of needs, no automated identification can achieve 100% accuracy in species identification. Auto-ID, though largely accurate, should not be relied on as a basis for scientific research. Auto-ID is intended for use in analyzing recordings of single bats in free flight in low clutter environments. Auto-ID will not work well on recordings of roost emergence, multiple or captive bats, bats in high clutter environments, or bat social calls. Auto-ID does not include every possible bat for each of the covered regions. Echo Meter is a registered trademark of Wildlife Acoustics, Inc.

Point your phone at the night sky and it names every star, planet and constellation you see, and finds tonight's best sight for you: a planet, the Space Station, the odds of a shooting star, with the source behind every number. Keep tonight's sky as a story poster, with its name and one true fact, and send it to a friend who looks up at the same moment. Keep the sky of the night you were born. Walk inside the Milky Way; fall into a black hole. No account, no ads, no tracking. The sky is worked out on your phone. TONIGHT, ABOVE YOU • The one thing most worth seeing in your sky tonight, chosen for your place and your sky, with when and where to look • The Moon and planets from real spacecraft maps — NASA's Lunar Reconnaissance Orbiter, Viking, Cassini — turned and lit exactly as they are tonight, Saturn's rings at their true tilt • All 8,400 stars the naked eye can see, and the real Milky Way, exactly where they are right now • Make a wish: your honest chance of a shooting star in the next 15 minutes, hour by hour POINT YOUR PHONE UP • Hold your phone to the sky and follow the gold thread; with Sky sounds on, pings quicken as you get close • Find it, and see how many of its photons just landed in your eye • Pinch to zoom in, up to 16× (8× over the camera): the Moon shows its real face, the planets appear as a telescope shows them • Tap any light — planet, star, galaxy — and learn what it is, and which constellation it is in • Keep the moment as a story poster: the sky, its name, one fact and your name (or not), ready to share • The invisible layer: Voyager 1, the Hubble Deep Field, the black hole at the heart of our galaxy • By day, a real photograph of a clear sky with the Sun where it really is — and the stars still there • Red night vision, and the sky described aloud JOURNEYS • Walk inside the Milky Way: ESO's 360° photograph of our whole galaxy around you, to the real sounds of space • Fall into a black hole: watch gravity bend the Milky Way's light, worked out from Einstein's equations, and see how slowly your clock would tick • Through the great telescopes: eight pictures from James Webb, eight from Hubble, three from the Netherlands' LOFAR, and the Dwingeloo radio telescope under the stars, to open full screen and zoom into • Real photographs from Hubble, ESO, NOIRLab and the Event Horizon Telescope LIVE • Sky alerts for the Space Station, aurora, meteor showers and the Blaze Star (T Coronae Borealis), checked whenever the app can • The planes you can really see overhead, where they are flying, and a flight to follow across the sky • Who Earth is talking to right now, from NASA's Deep Space Network, and the Sun as it looked minutes ago • Space Station passes, a dark-sky finder, meteor showers, planets and eclipses to 2030 YOURS • Send tonight's sky to someone far away: they get the picture, where to look from their own town, and a page that works without the app • Keep the nights that matter — the night you were born, a wedding, a goodbye — with the whole sky above them • Send a message toward Andromeda and follow it past the stars • Look up at the same moment as someone far away • Count meteors and send your count to the International Meteor Organization • Your year in light EVERY NUMBER SHOWS ITS SOURCE Every line carries a small mark that says whether it is measured, computed, estimated or debated, and its source. Tap "How we know" to see the source, and how sure we are. HONEST AND PRIVATE The sky is worked out on your phone. No account, no ads, no tracking. Live features stay off until you turn on Live weather & satellites, and even then your position only leaves your phone rounded (about 1 km for the weather, about 10 km for the planes overhead). Apple Maps names your town. The privacy policy lists every service. For iPhone and iPad, in English and Turkish, with Home Screen and Lock Screen widgets (clear or cloudy needs Live weather & satellites).