The Real Nature Beyond the Internet

Let's listen to the sounds from 9 places. Doesn't it feel like these natures come surrounding us?
Starred places use solar batteries and satellite communications to broadcast 7 hours a day. Circled places use commercial power and optical networks for non-stop broadcast.

This forest, surrounded by a natural forest, is beautiful at the morning sun shining across the valley. April 29th, 2014, 4:58 AM, birds are humming to tell daybreak. White-bellied green pigeon is especially notable with a relaxing tone. (Chichibu, Saitama) Yatake Live page

June 26th, 2015, 3:55 AM, we can hear the birds, waves, and sounds of fishing boats. The photo on the top is the Center, where the Tsunami hit during the Great East Japan Earthquake on 2011 March 11th. A live sound streaming started in 2 months after that. (Otsuchi, Iwate) Otohama_live

July 10th, 2019, 10:57 PM, forest green tree frog's call is echoing. Tree phenology research started in 1986, and Cyberforest monitoring added in 2011. This place is part of Shiga Highland Biosphere Reserve, it's also an environmental educational forest. (Yamanouchi, Nagano) Otanomo_live

November 29th, 2015, 3:33 PM, two male deers are fighting.
Altitude of 1000m, base of Mt. Fuji, Lake Yamanakako has a micrphones and web-cams in the experimental forest of Japanese Larch. It's also part of a national park. (Yamanakako, Yamanashi) Yamanakako_live

May 13th, 2016, 7:28 AM, we can hear the bull frogs' calls, which were originally imported as food. American was surprised to hear this, so we explained this by email. The Pond was a reservoir during the Edo period. On the lakeside, there is a bird observation hut. (Chiba, Chiba)

At 3:33 AM on September 14th, 2019, the baby bird is chirping and later the mother in the burrow is calling in a low voice. Streaked shearwater comes every April, the egg hatches around August, and November they goes back to the south. (Yamada, Iwate)

June 22nd, 2021, 4:05 AM, we can hear two woodpecker drumming. When a yezo spruce tree grows upon a fallen tree, we call it Nurse Log. For observation, this one tree which fell around 2011, has a mic and camera around the root of the tree.(Furano, Hokkaido)

May 5th 2020, 10:18 PM, we can hear the diva of the clear river, Buergeria buergeri's songs. Kyoto Univ. Ashiu Forest, Locus Sonus, The French Public Higher Schools of Art, and UTokyo Cyberforest, teamed up to set this microphones. (Miyama, Kyoto)

Hi-8 videotape started in 1995, in 2001 DV-CAM (professional digital videotape), then to satellite network, sending the digital datas to the university's server since 2010. All datas are CC BY-NC-SA 4.0. 

Experimental education using the Ministry of Internal Affairs network was held. This photo was taken in 2009, during a collaboration between an elementary school's science lab and Kashiwa Campus. (Kashiwa, Chiba)
Forest Information Infrastructure for Environmental Education

1st period (1995-2002): Robot cameras were placed, and struggle for fixing stable operation.
2nd period (2003-2009): Website, DVDs and Online lectures.
3rd period (2010-2021): Live sound recoding has continued for 11 years. International collaboration has also started during this period including the participation in Reveil.

Elevation at each point
1. #tetto 1200m
2. #yatake 1000m
3. #otohama 5m
4. #otanomo 1600m
5. #yamanakako 1000m
6. #funadaike 20m
7. #tabushima 50m
8.#maeyama 600m
9. #KyotoUriverside 460m
http://www.cyberforest.jp