Query: merge consecutive detections

[jezharringtonhayes]

What is the definition of 'consecutive' here? Does a subsequent detection need to occur within e.g. 3 seconds of the last one in order to be considered consecutive? Or is there no time limit, and in a one-hour recording with 10 evenly-spaced dections of the same species, they would all be bundled into one detection (assuming 'merge consecutive detections' were set to 10)?

[Josef-Haupt]

consecutive, in our context, literally means the next segment and if you set it to 10, then up to 10 successive segments will be merged into one line in the result file.

[jezharringtonhayes]

Thank you so much for the swift response! I assume overlap affects the application of 'segment'? So with 0 overlap, ten consecutive segments fill 30 seconds of recordings, whereas at an overlap of 2.9 seconds, ten consecutive segments fill only 3.9 seconds of recordings?

[Josef-Haupt]

yes exactly