Urban Greening: Ultrasonics and AI for Sustainable Biodiversity in Cities

There is increasing evidence that not only many animal and insect species communicate with sound frequencies above the threshold of human hearing but so do plants. Equally, human everyday activity produces such ultrasound especially in busy city centres.

There is an increasing momentum to 'green' our cities by encouraging urban biodiversity yet little research on the impact of human ultrasound activity on such efforts.

This project will conduct a preliminary investigation of the Aalborg ultrasoundscape, developing new AI methods and machine listening datasets designed specifically for urban ultrasonic sources. In this way, we aim to contribute knowledge to the development of a truly sustainable urban greening.

There is increasing evidence that not only many animal and insect species communicate with sound frequencies above the threshold of human hearing but so do plants. Equally, human everyday activity produces such ultrasound especially in busy city centres.

There is an increasing momentum to 'green' our cities by encouraging urban biodiversity yet little research on the impact of human ultrasound activity on such efforts.

This project will conduct a preliminary investigation of the Aalborg ultrasoundscape, developing new AI methods and machine listening datasets designed specifically for urban ultrasonic sources. In this way, we aim to contribute knowledge to the development of a truly sustainable urban greening.