
Binary Acoustic Technology AcroBAT
AcroBAT is a new innovative bat monitoring and recording system developed by Binary Acoustic Technology, LLC. It is designed to enhance bat acoustic monitoring and classification protocols by eliminating two prominent sources of error: 1) classifier errors introduced by the presence of multiple bats and bat species in recordings; and 2) classifier errors due to presence of multipath and erroneous or weak calls in recordings. Acro- BATtm provides a unique solution by applying an Agile call- sequence recording optimizer (Acro) which tracks bats, recovers the call-sequences generated by each bat and records them to disk, one file per bat, per bat-pass. An AcroBAT field recording system is composed of a Binary Acoustic Technology’s AcroBAT adaptive receiver, along with a copy of AcroBAT software running on a Window’s laptop or tablet computer. For transect monitoring or acoustic mistnetting, we recommend mounting the receiver so that it points directly upward. This provides hemispheri