Autonomous acoustic recording packages (ARPs) for long-term monitoring of whale sounds

Marine Technology Society Journal

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2003, Pages 13-22

  Wiggins, Sean ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA RECORDING; SURVEYS;

ACOUSTIC RECORDING PACKAGES (ARP);

MARINE ENGINEERING;

ACOUSTIC METHOD; HYDROPHONE; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

EID: 0242710939     PISSN: 00253324     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.4031/002533203787537375     Document Type: Article

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