Signal processing techniques for acoustic measurement of sperm whale body lengths

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 100, Issue 5, 1996, Pages 3431-3441

  Goold, John C ^a  

^a BANGOR UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BODY HEIGHT; CORRELATION FUNCTION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MEASUREMENT; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; VELOCITY; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; FEMALE; MALE; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY); WHALES;

EID: 0029956438     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.416984     Document Type: Article

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