class pypam.acoustic_file.AcuFile(sfile, hydrophone, p_ref, timezone='UTC', channel=0, calibration=None, dc_subtract=False)

Data recorded in a wav file.

Parameters:

sfileSound file

Can be a path or a file object

hydrophoneObject for the class hydrophone

p_refFloat

Reference pressure in upa

timezone: datetime.tzinfo, pytz.tzinfo.BaseTZInfo, dateutil.tz.tz.tzfile, str or None

Timezone where the data was recorded in

channelint

Channel to perform the calculations in

calibration: float, -1 or None

If it is a float, it is the time ignored at the beginning of the file. If None, nothing is done. If negative, the function calibrate from the hydrophone is performed, and the first samples ignored (and hydrophone updated)

dc_subtract: bool

Set to True to subtract the dc noise (root mean squared value