A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic

Samuel Challéat (1, 2, 3, 4) , Nicolas Farrugia (5, 6) , Jérémy S P Froidevaux (7, 8) , Amandine Gasc (9, 10) , Nicolas Pajusco (11) , Carlos R Abrahams , Orlando Acevedo-Charry , Ludmilla M S Aguiar , Zachary R Ahlin , Franz Aiple , Cécile H. Albert (10) , Irene Alcocer , Ana Sofia Alves (12) , Francisco Amorim (13) , Ludmila B Andrade , Pedro M Araújo (14) , Fernando Ascensão (15) , Serge Aucoin , Elias Bader , Diego Balbuena , Luc Barbaro (16) , Eder Barbier , Eliana Barona Cortés , Luis Emilio Barrie , José L Bartheld , Henry Bates , Alice Baudouin (17) , Richard D Beason , Christa Beckmann (18, 19, 20) , Amy Beeston , Gvan Belá , Kristen M Bellisario , Simon Belshaw , Juan F Beltrán , Raone Beltrão-Mendes , Enrico Bernard , Thierry Besche , Peter A Biro , Cathie Boléat , Mathieu Bossaert , Ally Bradley , Paulo Branco , Wijnand Bredewold , Philip A Briggs , Sylvio Romério Briglia-Ferreira , Emily Buckner , Ivana Budinski , Albane Burens , Rachel T Buxton , Andrés Canavero , Paulo Cardoso , Farah Carrasco-Rueda , Paula C Caycedo , Frédéric Cazaban , Lara R Cerveira , Ada Ceuppens , Alain Challéat , Angela Chappa Larrea , Adrien Charbonneau , Mina Charnaux , Pooja Choksi , Jan Cibulka , Julián Clavijo-Bustos , Zuania Colón-Piñeiro , Sofia Conde , Maria João Costa , António Cotão , Clément Couturier , Marina D A Scarpelli , Luis P da Silva , Tom Davis , Nathalie de Lacoste , Sarah L Deans , Serge Dentin , Krzysztof Deoniziak , Sarah R Dodgin , Ivo dos Santos , Tudor I Draganoiu , Bruno Drolet , Marina H L Duarte , Gonçalo Duarte , Chloé Dubset , Frank Dziock , Alice Eldridge , Simon Elise , David R Elliott , Arthur Enguehard , Karl Esztl , Darren M Evans , Daniel M Ferreira , Sonia a F Ferreira , Diogo F Ferreira , Ana Margarida Ferreira , Penelope C Fialas , Lauren Foster-Shaner , Bárbara Freitas , Nicholas R Friedman , Susan Fuller , Didier Galop , Daniel Garside , Jean-Christophe Gattus , Sylvain Geoffray , Louis Godart , Laurent Godet , Inês Gomes Marques , Fernando González-Garca , Paul Griesberger , Bilal Habib , Madeline E Hallet , Meena M Haribal , Jennifer Hatlauf , Sylvain Haupert , José M Herrera , Sierra E Herzberger , Frederico Hintze Oliveira , Kathy H Hodder , Isabelle Hoecherl , Mark F Hulme , Emilia Hyland , Michel Jacobs , Akash Jaiswal , Laurent Jégou , Steve Jones , Hervé Jourdan , Tomáš Jůnek , Leili Khalatbari , Sarika Khanwilkar , James J N Kitson , Amanda H Korstjens , Kim Krähenbühl-Künzli , Natalija Lace , Sébastien Laguet , Hedwig Lankau , Thiago O Laranjeiras , Gregoire Lauvin , Samuel Lavin , Matthieu Le Corre , Monica León , Judah J Levenson , Pavel Linhart , Juliette Linossier , Diego J Lizcano , Diego Llusia , Marty Lockett , Pedro B Lopes , Ricardo Jorge Lopes , José Vicente López-Bao , Adrià López-Baucells , David López-Bosch , Ricardo B Machado , Claude Mande , Guillaume Marchais , Fabio Marcolin , Oscar H Marn Gómez , Carina B Marques , J. Tiago Marques , Tilla Martin , Vanessa Mata , Eloisa Matheu-Cortada , Vincent Médoc , Kirsten E Miller , Basile Montagne , Allen Moore , Jomari M A Moreno , Felipe N Moreno-Gómez , Sandra Mueller , Daniela Murillo-Bedoya , Luciano N Naka , Adrian C Newton , João T Nunes , Pierrette Nyssen , Fionn Ó Marcaigh , Darren P O’connell , M. Teague O’mara , David Ocampo , Meryem Ouertani , Jan Olav Owren , Vitor H Paiva , Stéphane Paris , Marion Parisot , Swaroop Patankar , Jorge M Pereira , Slvia Pereira Barreiro , Cédric Peyronnet , Magali Philippe , Bryan C Pijanowski , Nuno Pinto , Zach Poff , Jonathan M Poppele , Andrew Power , Victoria Pratt , Darren S Proppe , Raphaël Proulx , Laura Prugh , Sebastien J Puechmaille , Xavier Puig-Montserrat , Lorenzo Quaglietta , John E Quinn , Nancy I Quiroga , Mariana Ramos , Rebecca Rasmussen , Georges Reckinger , Mimi Reed , Jean-Benoît Reginster , Vanesa Rivera , Clara F Rodrigues , Patricia Mara Rodrguez-González , Eduardo Rodrguez-Rodrguez , Luke Romaine , Andrei L Roos , Joao Rosa , Null- J Ross , Quentin Rouy , Alyssa M Ryser , Sougata Sadhukhan , Robin Sandfort , José M Santos , David Savage , Stéphanie C Schai-Braun , Michael Scherer-Lorenzen , Mathilde Schoenauer Sebag , Pedro Segurado , Ana M Serronha , Taylor Shaw , Brenda Shepherd , Cárol Sierra-Durán , Bruno M Silva , Victoire Simon , Peter F Sinclair , Carolina Soto-Navarro , Anne Sourdril , Jérôme Sueur , Larissa S M Sugai , Ian B Tarrant , Fran Tattersall , Christopher N Templeton , Michelle E Thompson , Marcela Todd , Juan D Tovar-Garca , Karina Townsend , Amaro Tuninetti , Paul A Ullrich , Juan S Vargas Soto , Kevin Vega , Gabriella Ventrice , Pierre J Victor , Josep Vidal Oliveras , Sara Villén-Pérez , Olivier Vinet , Agnés Vivat , Jean-Do Vrignault , William D J Walton , Christopher J Watson , Oliver R Wearn , Damion L Whyte , Fredric M Windsor , Yanchen Wu , Selena Xie , Ignacio Zeballos Puccherelli , Vera Zina

1 GEODE - Géographie de l'environnement
2 OEN - Observatoire de l'environnement nocturne
3 INEE-CNRS - Institut Ecologie et Environnement - CNRS Ecologie et Environnement
4 INSHS-CNRS - Institut des Sciences Humaines et Sociales - CNRS Sciences humaines et sociales
5 Lab_STICC_BRAIn - Equipe Better Representations for Artificial Intelligence
6 IMT Atlantique - MEE - Département Mathematical and Electrical Engineering
7 CREA Mont-Blanc - Centre de Recherches sur les Ecosystèmes d'Altitude
8 MNHN - Muséum national d'Histoire naturelle
9 OSU - Oregon State University
10 IMBE - Institut méditerranéen de biodiversité et d'écologie marine et continentale
11 LAUM - Laboratoire d'Acoustique de l'Université du Mans
12 CR2P - Centre de Recherche en Paléontologie - Paris
13 CIBIO - Centro de Investigação em Biodiversidade e Recursos Genéticos [Vairao]
14 IMR - Institute of Marine Research [Bergen]
15 cE3c - Centre for Ecology - Evolution and Environmental Changes
16 DYNAFOR - Dynamiques et écologie des paysages agriforestiers
17 ECOBIO - Ecosystèmes, biodiversité, évolution [Rennes]
18 HIE - Hawkesbury Institute for the Environment [Richmond]
19 Deakin University [Burwood]
20 Western Sydney University

Political responses to the COVID-19 pandemic led to changes in city soundscapes around the globe. From March to October 2020, a consortium of 261 contributors from 35 countries brought together by the Silent Cities project built a unique soundscape recordings collection to report on local acoustic changes in urban areas. We present this collection here, along with metadata including observational descriptions of the local areas from the contributors, open-source environmental data, open-source confinement levels and calculation of acoustic descriptors. We performed a technical validation of the dataset using statistical models run on a subset of manually annotated soundscapes. Results confirmed the large-scale usability of ecoacoustic indices and automatic sound event recognition in the Silent Cities soundscape collection. We expect this dataset to be useful for research in the multidisciplinary field of environmental sciences.

Mots clés: Covid 19; soundscape; urban environment; deep learning; socio-environment

Domaines: Environnement et Société; Sciences de l'environnement; Sciences du Vivant [q-bio]; Sciences de l'Homme et Société

Samuel Challéat, Nicolas Farrugia, Jérémy S P Froidevaux, Amandine Gasc, Nicolas Pajusco, et al.. A dataset of acoustic measurements from soundscapes collected worldwide during the COVID-19 pandemic. Scientific Data , 2024, 11 (1), pp.928. ⟨10.1038/s41597-024-03611-7⟩. ⟨hal-04717397⟩