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GUIDE BOOK & SOP CONTENTS
BAT MONITORING & WHITE-NOSE SYNDROME PREVENTION GUIDE BOOK & SOP ............. 22
SECTION 1 – SETUP & PREPARING TO MONITOR............................................................................ 23
1.1 DETECTOR SETUP ................................................................................................................................. 23
1.2 DETECTOR BUTTONS & CONNECTORS OPERATION ................................................................................. 25
1.3 SYSTEM CHECKS PRIOR TO MONITORING .............................................................................................. 26
SECTION 2 – OPERATIONS..................................................................................................................... 29
2.1 OPERATIONS OVERVIEW ....................................................................................................................... 29
SECTION 3 – MONITORING TYPES & SETUP ..................................................................................... 30
3.1 VEHICLE MONITORING ......................................................................................................................... 31
3.2 OVERNIGHT MONITORING ..................................................................................................................... 34
3.3 RANGE T UNNEL TEMPERATURE/HUMIDITY MONITORING ...................................................................... 36
SECTION 4 – MONITORING PROCEDURES (IN THE ACT OF MONITORING).............................. 38
4.1 VEHICLE MONITORING ......................................................................................................................... 38
4.2 OVERNIGHT MONITORING ..................................................................................................................... 39
4.3 RANGE T UNNEL TEMPERATURE/HUMIDITY MONITORING ...................................................................... 40
SECTION 5 – DATA ANALYSIS ............................................................................................................... 41
5.1 DOWNLOADING AND SAVING DATA ...................................................................................................... 41
5.2 DATA ANALYSIS USING ANALOOKW .................................................................................................... 44
5.3 DATA ANALYSIS OF TEMPERATURE/HUMIDITY DATA LOGGERS ............................................................. 51
5.4 DATA ANALYSIS USING ECHOCLASS AUTOMATED ID SOFTWARE .......................................................... 53
SECTION 6 – BASIC OPERATION SUMMARY ..................................................................................... 53
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EIGHT SIMPLE STEPS TO MONITORING .............................................................................................. 53
APPENDIX I – ANABAT SD2 DETECTOR REFERENCE DIAGRAMS ............................................... 55
APPENDIX II – MONITORING CHECKLISTS ...................................................................................... 56
APPENDIX III – ACOUSTIC MONITORING DATASHEET ................................................................. 57
APPENDIX IV – MONITORING MAP ..................................................................................................... 58
APPENDIX V – DOWNLOAD OPTIONS FOR CF CARD ...................................................................... 59
APPENDIX VI – OVERNIGHT MONITORING PROTECTION REFERENCE PICTURES ............... 60
APPENDIX VII – BAT CALL EXAMPLES FOR ANALOOKW ............................................................. 61
APPENDIX VIII – RTR-500DC & RTR-503 REFERENCE DIAGRAMS ............................................... 64
APPENDIX IX – MAP OF RANGE TUNNEL LOCATIONS ................................................................... 65
APPENDIX X – ARTIFICIAL BAT ROOST............................................................................................. 66
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