Off-axis sonar beam pattern of free-ranging finless porpoises measured by a stereo pulse event data logger

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 117, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 3325-3330

  Akamatsu, Tomonari ^a   Wang, Ding ^b   Wang, Kexiong ^b  

^a FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^b INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; BIODIVERSITY; COMPUTATIONAL METHODS; ECOSYSTEMS; ESTIMATION; OCEAN HABITATS; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

BEAM ANGLES; OFF-AXIS SONAR BEAM PATTERNS; SOUND TRANSMISSION; WATER SURFACE ECHO LEVEL;

SONAR;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; ECHOLOCATION; HABITAT STRUCTURE; NONHUMAN; PORPOISE; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY THRESHOLD; BEHAVIOR, ANIMAL; CHINA; ECHOLOCATION; PORPOISES; RIVERS; TIME FACTORS;

EID: 18744408489     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1893325     Document Type: Article

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