Tracking sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) dive profiles using a towed passive acoustic array

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 1, 2004, Pages 245-253

  Thode, Aaron ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARRAYS; HYDROPHONES; REFLECTION;

LARGE-APERTURE TOWED ARRAYS; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC METHODS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE DIFFRACTION;

ACOUSTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; DIVING; MEASUREMENT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SURFACE PROPERTY; TECHNIQUE; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; DIVING; OCEANS AND SEAS; SOUND; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 3142779256     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1758972     Document Type: Conference Paper

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