Recognizing transient low-frequency whale sounds by spectrogram correlation

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 107, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 3518-3529

  Mellinger, David K ^a,b,c   Clark, Christopher W ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b MONTEREY BAY AQUARIUM RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (United States)

^c Department of Obstetrics Gynecology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ANALYTIC METHOD; ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; LOW FREQUENCY NOISE; NERVE CELL NETWORK; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; RECOGNITION; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; WHALE;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 0034122648     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.429434     Document Type: Article

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