The influence of flight speed on the ranging performance of bats using frequency modulated echolocation pulses

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 113, Issue 1, 2003, Pages 617-628

  Boonman, Arjan M ^a,b   Parsons, Stuart ^a   Jones, Gareth ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIRCRAFT; BANDWIDTH; DOPPLER EFFECT; FREQUENCIES; HARMONIC ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PULSE MODULATION; ULTRASONIC WAVES;

DOPPLER TOLERANCE;

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING;

ACOUSTICS; BAT; BIOACOUSTICS; ECHOLOCATION; FLIGHT;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BAT; FLIGHT; FREQUENCY MODULATION; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; TASK PERFORMANCE; ULTRASOUND;

ACCELERATION; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; DOPPLER EFFECT; ECHOLOCATION; FLIGHT, ANIMAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY;

EID: 0037240444     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1528175     Document Type: Article

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