Humpback whale song or humpback whale sonar? A reply to Au et al.

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 3, 2001, Pages 406-415

  Mercado III, Eduardo ^a   Neil Frazer, L ^b  

^a RUTGERS UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Baleen whale; Cetacean; Environmentally adaptive sonar; Low frequency sonar; Mysticete

Indexed keywords

ADAPTIVE FILTERING; FREQUENCY MODULATION;

LOW-FREQUENCY SONARS;

SONAR;

EID: 0035385552     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/48.946514     Document Type: Article

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