A comparison of methods for detecting right whale calls

Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne

Volumn 32, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 55-65

  Mellinger, David K ^a,b  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b NOAA PACIFIC MARINE ENVIRONMENTAL LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ERROR RATE; MANUAL TRAINING; SPECTROGRAM CORRELATION; SPECTROGRAMS;

CONSERVATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY MODULATION; HYDROPHONES; MARINE BIOLOGY; NEURAL NETWORKS; OPTIMIZATION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PERSONNEL TRAINING; REAL TIME SYSTEMS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

FISH DETECTORS;

EID: 3142714419     PISSN: 07116659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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