SPECIALTY GRAND CHALLENGE article

Front. Remote Sens., 06 January 2022

Sec. Acoustic Remote Sensing

Volume 2 - 2021 | https://doi.org/10.3389/frsen.2021.824848

Grand Challenges in Acoustic Remote Sensing: Discoveries to Support a Better Understanding of Our Changing Planet

  • 1. Department of Forestry and Natural Resources, Purdue University, West Lafayette, IN, United States

  • 2. Department of Oceanography, Dalhousie University, Halifax, NS, Canada

Introduction

There are numerous 21st century environmental grand challenges that need to be addressed by the scientific community. Several that have been identified are even considered to threaten life on Earth (; ; ; ; ; ; ; ; Wu, 2013). Environmental grand challenges that need critical research include understanding how the environment is changing due to the global footprint of human activities, such as climate change, habitat alteration or modifications to the animal community, all of which are occurring at unprecedented rates.

Scientists and engineers need to rise to address these challenges by advancing the field of remote sensing. One of the promising remote sensing technologies include those that utilize acoustics - either active or passive - which can uniquely characterize the structure and dynamics of terrestrial and aquatic systems. Acoustic remote sensing has advanced rapidly in recent years as researchers have drawn upon several well-known measuring technologies including the applications of transducers that measure sound in air, water and in solids, applying and advancing a variety of signal processing techniques, and leveraging generic data mining technologies that facilitate the analysis of acoustic data. Ultimately, research in remote sensing aims to discover patterns in data that can be used to understand how the Earth system is changing, acoustics being one form of data that is becoming increasingly useful. We need a forum for scholars across a variety of fields to communicate their discoveries in order to improve the well-being of people and other life on Earth.

Here, we outline the kinds of applications of acoustic remote sensing that we hope will appear in the Acoustics Specialty Section of Frontiers in Remote Sensing (FRS). As co-Chief Editors for this specialty section, we want to convey our excitement about this emerging field of acoustic remote sensing and the promise that these technologies can provide scholars to advancing the greatly needed discoveries of our rapidly changing planet.

Active Acoustic Remote Sensing

Mapping the surface of the earth using satellite (or airborne) remote sensing techniques have revolutionized our understanding of earth, ocean and atmospheric systems over the past 5 decades (). Most of these sensors use information from the electromagnetic (EM) spectrum to measure and monitor the earth. These technologies have allowed terrestrial systems and the surface of the ocean to be repeatedly mapped at high resolution, with some sensors now capable of mapping at sub-meter resolution (; ; ). However, electromagnetic waves do not penetrate very far through water, and with 70% of the earth covered by the oceans with an average depth of 3.6 km, the vast majority of the globe remains extremely poorly mapped. For example, it is estimated that only 18% of the seabed is mapped at a comparable resolution to that of terrestrial environments ().

Active acoustic remote sensing methods generate a sound pulse and measure the returning signal (echo) to deduce information about the sensed environment. These active systems have filled this sensor void in helping us understand underwater systems where EM sensors have difficulty reaching. Sonar (Sound Navigation and Ranging) systems primarily utilize frequencies ranging from 1 kHz to several hundreds of kHz (), and the design and engineering of these sensors has advanced and diversified for use in a wide range of application: Singlebeam echosounders (SBES) and multibeam echosounders (MBES) are used to map seafloor bathymetry for nautical charting (e.g., ; ; ; ); MBES, sidescan sonar (SSS) and lower frequency sub bottom profilers (SBP) are used to study the morphology and geology of the seabed (e.g., ; ; ; Wilson et al., 2007; ); SBES, MBES and acoustic telemetry are used for fisheries applications to map fish biomass and movement (e.g., ; ; ; ; ) or to map benthic ecosystems (e.g., ; ; ; ; ; Wilson et al., 2021); Synthetic aperture sonars (SAS) are primarily used for defense applications (e.g., ; ) with other applications such as benthic habitat or substrate mapping recently emerging (; ); Acoustic Doppler Current Profilers (ADCP) are used to investigate physical oceanographic phenomena including current speed, direction and transport of biological or geological particles (e.g., ; ; ). At lower frequencies (<1,000 Hz), seismic systems have been developed for remote characterization of the deep seafloor subsurface (e.g., ) and the physical structure of the overlying oceans (e.g., ). Examples of some of these types of sensors and data are shown in Figure 1. Although active acoustic remote sensing is dominated by uses in the underwater domain, there are also some terrestrial (e.g., terrestrial seismic exploration) and atmospheric applications (e.g., Sonic Detection and Ranging (SODAR) and Radio Acoustic Sounding Systems (RASS) ()).

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Passive Acoustic Remote Sensing

Passive acoustic technologies focus primarily on measuring sound and/or vibrations in air, water and/or solids. These passive technologies focus on three important spectral ranges - those in the human audible range (20–20,000 Hz), above human hearing (>20,000 Hz) or ultrasonic, and those below human hearing sensitivity (less than 20 Hz), or infrasonic. Sound sources in these ranges include sounds from biological organisms (animals that are communicating using sound), geophysical dynamics (thunder, sounds from rain, and earthquakes), and sounds from human-made objects (sirens, road noise). Together these occur as soundscapes (; ; ; ). Studies of soundscape ecology are at the forefront of ecological sciences as it focusses on the interplay of landscape/seascape dynamics and spatial-temporal acoustical patterns (; ; ). As terrestrial and aquatic acoustic sensors (Figure 2) have now become relatively affordable and analytical tools such as Seewave (), AP.exe (), and SoundEcologyR () have been developed, work in passive acoustic monitoring has flourished. Advances in terrestrial, marine, freshwater, and urban soundscape ecology has exploded in recent years; and, due to the robustness of current sensors, research has now extended across tropical, temperate, arid, and cold climates and in freshwater and marine systems.

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Grand Challenges

Although some areas of acoustic remote sensing are relatively mature and have established journals for publication, many of the emerging techniques and technologies, novel applications, and data interpretation and analyses methods have no clear venue for publication. It is our hope that FRS may offer this very young science a forum for which we can share our discoveries.

We seek to have acoustic remote sensing scholars from all over the world (e.g., for a summary of the exceptional work being done in Latin America for example) publish in FRS in the following areas:

Advances in transducer technologies Sonar design have diversified tremendously in the past 2–3 decades, with a move from analogue to digital systems, and improvements in performance, resolution, and positioning. Swath sonar systems (e.g., MBES, SSS, SAS) continue to advance, with increasing resolution and capability to operate over a range of frequencies (e.g., multispectral MBES – ; ; ). Microphones for passive acoustics can come in a variety of configurations, from single transducers to those arranged in arrays (e.g., double M/S). New configurations can provide more detailed information about the location of sound sources, how sound propagates through media, and the extent that sound can reach a receiver. Power is also a challenge with field sensors so technological solutions are needed to ensure that sensors can collect data for longer periods or time or in environments (e.g., cold) where battery power is limiting. Papers in FRS should advance the technology frontier in transducer technologies that can lead to more discoveries in our sonic world.

Advances in acoustic sensor networks. How can researchers create wired or wireless acoustic sensor networks that support the coordination of data collection, data transfers and onboard sensor capabilities such as edge computing? How can these acoustic sensors be integrated with other environmental sensors, such as those that collect data on weather, imagery, and chemistry? Large-scale acoustic sensor networks have been challenging to deploy and maintain (e.g., ) but advances continue to occur moving us toward implementing these are very large spatial extents (e.g., ; ; ).

Advances with sensor platforms Deploying sonars on autonomous platforms such as autonomous surface vehicles (ASVs) or autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs) (; Wynn et al., 2014) is providing significant reduction in the cost of data acquisition. Platform design, capabilities and sensor integration is an emerging field, with rapid innovation taking place which will continue to drive the field of acoustic remote sensing forward. We are interested in articles that describe new acoustic sensor platforms for any environmental application (e.g., ; ; ; ; Wynn et al., 2014; ; ).

Advances in labeling and retrieval of acoustic data Many researchers are now collecting acoustic data that is difficult to manage due to the size and complexity of the information stored. Advances in information retrieval systems are needed so that researchers can query their large databases for use in their research. Acoustic information retrieval systems will require innovative approaches as many current databases lack the ability to readily store acoustic data. Soundscape information retrieval systems is at the forefront of engineering work to support acoustic research (; ; ).

Advances in acoustic sensor applications (both active and passive) How can our acoustic sensors be used to better understand patterns of biodiversity, map and study aquatic ecosystems, measure the impact of noise on animal communication (e.g., ; ; ; ), understand patterns of environmental sounds like those from storms, such as wind, rain, thunder (e.g., ), earthquakes (Wu et al., 2020), and the vibroscapes of animals such as spiders (e.g., )? What new acoustic indices can be developed that assess changes in the environment (e.g., ; ; ; ; ; ; ; )? How can acoustic remote sensing help us to understand and pose solutions to grand environmental problems such as climate change, habitat alteration, the decline of species at local to global scales, the impact of pollutants on ecosystem dynamics, and the introduction of non-native species into the environment?

Advances in big data acoustic mining and data processing Passive acoustic monitoring has solved many problems related to the recording of sound in harsh environments, but doing so means that there is now a tremendous amount of data to analyze, and many argue (e.g., ) that this has brought ecologists into the big data era. Similarly, active acoustic data acquisition is acquiring vast volumes of data, with a need to explore how to analyze, process and interpret these data source through integration of in situ validation measurements. With that transition, ecologists and data scientists are now applying a multitude of data mining tools to the analysis of massive acoustic data. These include those that classify sounds (e.g., Zhao et al., 2017), sort sounds through clustering algorithms (e.g., ; ), reduce the massive number of acoustic features that are calculated per recording in order to reduce the multidimensionality for more efficient and less complex analysis (; ), use of acoustic recordings that are integrated with human perception data (e.g., ) and the development and application of advanced visualization tools such as false color spectrograms (Figure 2). Software development that supports the collection, modification, analysis, fusion, and visualization of acoustic data is needed to advance acoustic remote sensing research. In addition, data formats for sound files, traditionally stored as lossless formats such as wav and flac or as lossy formats such as mp3, could be improved to reduce costs to store data or reduce time to discovery.

Advances in seascape ecology The application of sonar for mapping the benthic environment (both marine and freshwater) has resulting in exponential growth in publications in this research area over the past 2 decades. Swath acoustic systems (MBES, SSS) coupled with geological and biological ground validation are now used to map underwater landscapes (benthoscapes – the seafloor component of seascapes (; ; ; ; Wilson et al., 2021) in a comparable way that terrestrial landscapes are mapped using satellite remote sensing data sets on land. Physical oceanographic variables, sometime measured with acoustic remote sensing methods (e.g., water column data from MBES or ADCPs), or other forms/sources of environmental data are increasingly being integrated with benthic data - offering new insights in understanding habitat use by marine organism, or species range shifts resulting from climate change. In addition, passive acoustic sensing in oceans (e.g., , ) and freshwater systems such as ponds, lakes and rivers (e.g., ; ; ; ; ; ) is advancing at rapid paces too, providing us with rich information about how our aquatic systems are changing. With increasing data availability, this research area is primed for further growth in the coming decades.

Advances in understanding of landscape/seascape-soundscape relationships Sound produced by objects in terrestrial and aquatic environments is a spatially explicit phenomenon. Soundscape ecologists have focused a lot of research on understanding the relationship between patterns and processes occurring in landscapes and the composition and dynamics of the soundscape (; ). Advances are needed in this area of research as it helps researchers and natural resource managers understand how human and organismal activities create the types of sounds that occur across space and time. Analyses of the interplay of landscapes/seascapes and soundscapes is at the forefront of many applications of acoustic remote sensing and FRS is especially interested in advancing this area of research. This research could also involve the integration of acoustic remote sensing data with that from other remote sensing platforms, such as those from LiDAR (e.g., ), hyperspectral (e.g., ) and multispectral imagery (e.g., ; Yan and Roy, 2021).

Growth in This Research Field

Growth and expansion in this field of research has been enormous over the past 2 decades, mostly driven by improvements, innovations, and access to sensing technology. Figure 3 demonstrates this growth, through a basic search of the literature using the key words “Acoustic Remote Sensing” or “Active Acoustic Sensing” or “Passive Acoustic Sensing” in Web of Science, resulting in 2,650 publications. We acknowledge that this is likely a significant underestimate of the number of publications in this field, as many will have no standard key words. Nonetheless, it demonstrates the growth in this field over the past few decades.

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Conclusion

The sensor technologies and methodological advances that are outlined above have led to the emergence, expansion, and rapid growth of acoustic remote sensing research. Over the coming decades we anticipate that acoustic remote sensing will help improve our understanding of how the environment is changing due to human activities, such as climate change, habitat alteration and loss of biodiversity. Important global initiatives, such as Seabed 2030 (https://seabed2030.org/), will apply acoustic remote sensing to help map the ocean floor in higher resolution, the most poorly studied ecosystem on earth. Technological innovation will continue to improve sensors, and deployment automation will improve the way that these sensors are deployed into the environment, leading to new discoveries, and a better understanding of global environments. Often cutting across multiple disciplines and integrating diverse forms of data, research conducted in this field is often difficult to place in existing journals. FRS will therefore provide a much-needed forum for publishing science in this relatively young and exciting field of research.

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Author contributions

All authors listed have made a substantial, direct, and intellectual contribution to the work and approved it for publication.

Acknowledgments

The authors would like to thank Kraken Robotics (https://krakenrobotics.com/), the Geoforce Group Ltd. (https://www.geoforcegroup.com/), and Vicki Gazzola from the Seascape Ecology and Mapping Lab at Dalhousie University for provision of imagery used in Figure 1.

Conflict of interest

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acoustics, sound, sonar, soundscapes, sensors, transducers

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Pijanowski BC and Brown CJ (2022) Grand Challenges in Acoustic Remote Sensing: Discoveries to Support a Better Understanding of Our Changing Planet. Front. Remote Sens. 2:824848. doi: 10.3389/frsen.2021.824848

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29 November 2021

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01 December 2021

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2 - 2021

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Jose Antonio Sobrino, University of Valencia, Spain

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† These authors have contributed equally to this work and share first authorship

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