Plant ultrasound detection: a cost-effective method for identifying plant ultrasonic emissions

Abstract

Plants have been observed to produce short ultrasonic emissions (UEs), and current research is focusing on developing noninvasive techniques for recording and analyzing these emissions. A standardized methodology has not been established yet; in this paper we suggest a cost-effective procedure for recording, extracting, and identifying plant UEs using only a single ultrasound microphone, a laptop computer, and open-source software.

Keywords

• plant acoustics
• plant ultrasonic emissions
• airborne sound vibrations
• non-invasive plant ue recording
• ultrasound microphone