Long-term video surveillance and automated analyses of hibernating bats in Virginia and Indiana, winters 2011-2014.

This data release includes video files and image-processing results used to conduct the analyses of hibernation patterns in groups of bats reported by Hayman et al. (2017), "Long-term video surveillance and automated analyses reveal arousal patterns in groups of hibernating bats.” Thermal-imaging surveillance video cameras were used to observe little brown bats (Myotis lucifugus) in a cave in Virginia and Indiana bats (M. sodalis) in a cave in Indiana during three winters between 2011 and 2014. There are 740 video files used for analysis (‘Analysis videos’), organized into 7 folders by state/site and winter. Total size of the video data set is 14.1 gigabytes. Each video file in this analysis set represents one...

Categories: Data; Types: Citation; Tags: Autocorrelation, Gap Cave, Indiana, USGS Science Data Catalog (SDC), Virginia, All tags... Wyandotte Cave, bats, behavior, biota, disease, energetics, hibernation, surveillance, survival, thermal infrared, time series, video, wavelets, white-nose syndrome, Fewer tags