Echolocation characteristics of free-swimming bottlenose dolphins during object detection and identification

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 4 I, 2005, Pages 2308-2317

  Houser, Dorian ^a   Martin, Stephen W ^b   Bauer, Eric J ^b   Phillips, Michael ^b   Herrin, Tim ^b   Cross, Matt ^b   Vidal, Andrea ^b   Moore, Patrick W ^b  

^a Biomimetica   (United States)

^b Naval Command   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC TARGET RECOGNITION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ANGULAR MOTIONS; BIOSONAR MEASUREMENT TOOL (BMT); DOLPHINS; ECOLOCATION;

UNDERWATER AUDITION;

SEA WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; DATA ANALYSIS; ECHOLOCATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HEARING LOSS; MALE; NONHUMAN; OBJECT RELATION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEA; SWIMMING; TASK PERFORMANCE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; DEPTH PERCEPTION; DISCRIMINATION LEARNING; DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; EXPLORATORY BEHAVIOR; MALE; ORIENTATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SWIMMING;

EID: 17644376941     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1867912     Document Type: Article

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