Sound Technology for Sustainable Farming Recording the sounds produced by species in a landscape (known as soundscaping) is an important tool in ecological research. We can measure the sound space occupied by wild species, domestic species and by human activity and can measure the relative contribution of each source to the overall soundscape. Recording a soundscape can generate a lot of data and to process that data you need some tools to help you extract meaningful metrics from the sound. You can also search for patterns of sounds within a soundscape, and move to identify the species that have made the sounds. For example in Brazilian open landscapes a nocturnal species that can thrive in good quality habitat is the Little Nightjar ( Setopagis parvula ). This small nocturnal bird feeds on insects and hunts from sandy tracks or from branches, all found in abundance in modern agricultural settings.The presence and density of nightjars in a farm landscape has been shown ...