Master Thesis - Tracking and synthesis of bat echolocating calls
Summary
The design of a system capable of sampling receivers up to two million
samples per second with at least sixteen simultaneous channels is developed.
This makes the system well suited for measuring echolocating bats
(Chiroptera order) which is an important end-goal of this system. Each
individual component is tested, and the practical feasibility of the
completed system is examined. Advice on completing a functional prototype is
given.
The system is designed to be scalable and modular, and should be able to
handle an arbitrary number of receivers. Another aim of this project is to use
standard off-the-shelf products as much as possible, ie. to ensure broad
and enduring support regarding hardware, thus reducing price and increasing
lifetime of the system. Equivalently the software is, as much as possible,
chosen from the open source ranks, this again ensures low cost and
longevity, and if we are lucky, free development.