Echo Meter Touch 2
Enjoy superior weather protection thanks to an included rainfly, welded corners, and inverted seams to keep water from getting in.
Echo Meter Touch 2
Flying at night and generally vocalizing outside the range of human hearing, bats can be difficult to detect. But with the Echo Meter Touch 2, you can listen, identify, and record nearby bats. Simply plug into your mobile device and install the free companion app to get started—no data plan required.
A powerful tool for environmental educators and science coordinators looking to engage people of all ages in participatory science. Also great for nature enthusiasts who want to learn about bats and ecosystems.
- Ideal for Citizen Science & Nature Enthusiasts.
- Hear Ultrasonic Bat Calls in Real-Time.
- Get Species Suggestions with Bat Auto-ID.
- See Echolocations as Color Spectrograms.
Key Features
Hear Ultrasonic Bat Calls.
Discover—and demystify—a world unheard. Bats produce sounds outside the range of human hearing. Echo Meter Touch 2 uses sophisticated hardware and software to make bat vocalizations audible. Patented Real-Time Expansion (RTE) technology makes it possible to hear bats as they fly by
Get Species Suggestions.
Receive suggestions for the two most likely species of bat vocalizing nearby, thanks to Bat Auto-ID. This powerful feature leverages technology used in our Kaleidoscope Pro Sound Analysis Software to perform on-the-spot analysis.* Get species illustrations, descriptions, and more.
See Echolocations in Color.
Add another dimension to learning, and visualize ultrasonic bat calls as color spectrograms. Zoom in on individual recordings to listen in greater detail.
Features
Conduct participatory science from the palm of your hand.
- Detect bats in real-time as they fly nearby
- Hear, visualize, & record ultrasonic bat calls
- Get suggested species with photos & more info*
- See recording locations & paths on a “zoomable” map
- Share your discoveries with others easily via text & email
*Bat Auto-ID classifiers are currently available for the United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa, and the Neotropics.
Specification
Sample Rate | 256k samples per-second at 16 bits
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Gain Settings
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Custom User Settings | Audio Division Ratio for RTE, HET and TE Real-Time ID (ON/OFF) Nightly Sessions Mode (ON/OFF) Real-Time ID (ON/OFF) Max Trigger Length Trigger Window Trigger Sensitivity Trigger Minimum Frequency | ||
Enclosure
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Rugged Polycarbonate housing with an integrated acoustical horn | ||
Dimensions And Weight
| Width: 1.9″ (48 mm) Length: 1.4″ (35 mm) Length with connector: 1.7″ (43 mm) Height: .46″ – .71″ (11.7 mm – 18.0 mm) | ||
Echo Meter Touch App
| The Echo Meter Touch App is free and available from the Apple App Store or Google Play.
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Listening Modes | RTE, heterodyne, and post-recording time expansion
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Recording Format
| Full-spectrum WAV
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Species Auto-ID Regions
| The United States, Canada, the United Kingdom, Europe, South Africa, and the Neotropics.
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