Localization of marine mammals near Hawaii using an acoustic propagation model

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 115, Issue 6, 2004, Pages 2834-2843

  Tiemann, Christopher O ^a   Porter, Michael B ^a   Frazer, L Neil ^b  

^a SCIENCE APPLICATIONS INTERNATIONAL CORPORATION   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HYDROPHONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; WAVEGUIDES;

HYPERBOLIC FIXING; VISUAL REPRESENTATION;

ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION;

HYDROPHONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; MAMMAL; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MICROPHONE; MODEL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; UNITED STATES; VELOCITY; WHALE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; HAWAII; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PACIFIC OCEAN; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 2942672239     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1643368     Document Type: Article

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