Welcome to the Acoular Organization!
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The Acoular Organization develops open source solutions for (acoustic) beamforming and sensor array signal processing. Acoular currently offers:

- `Acoular <https://acoular.org/acoular/>`_: Our flagship Python package for beamforming, deconvolution, source localization and mapping.
- `SpectAcoular <https://acoular.org/spectacoular/>`_: Custom graphical user interfaces for Acoular using the `Bokeh <https://bokeh.org/>`_ visualization library.
- `AcouPipe <https://adku1173.github.io/acoupipe/>`__: Toolbox for generating microphone array data with Acoular for deep learning tasks.

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Getting started with Acoular
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From the Acoular Blog
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      .. grid-item-card:: Drone Auralization Example
         :link: blog/auralization/drone-auralization-example
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         Simulate and auralize a multicopter flyby with Acoular.

      .. grid-item-card:: Converting Input Data
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         Convert CSV and MATLAB measurement data to Acoular's HDF5 format.

      .. grid-item-card:: Getting Started – Part 1
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         Build a frequency-domain beamforming workflow.

      .. grid-item-card:: Getting Started – Part 2
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         Explore additional frequency-domain beamforming methods.

      .. grid-item-card:: Getting Started – Part 3
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         Continue with time-domain processing methods.

   :doc:`Read all blog posts <blog/index>`.

About Us
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We are based at the `Department of Engineering Acoustics <https://www.tu.berlin/akustik>`_ at Technical University Berlin.

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   .. grid-item-card:: History
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      Learn about the history of the Acoular package.

   .. grid-item-card:: Funding
      :link: funding/index
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      Funding bodies that support Acoular's development.

All projects are licensed (`BSD <https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Berkeley_Software_Distribution>`_).
:doc:`Community contributions <../contributing/index>` are welcome!