Measuring the off-axis angle and the rotational movements of phonating sperm whales using a single hydrophone

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 119, Issue 6, 2006, Pages 4074-4082

  Laplanche, Christophe ^a   Adam, Olivier ^a   Lopatka, MacIej ^a   Motsch, Jean François ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST CRÉTEIL   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE REFLECTION; HYDROPHONES; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SEAWATER; SPEECH ANALYSIS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BENT-HORN MODEL; DISTAL SACS; OFF-AXIS ANGLE; PERIODIC PITCH; SPERM WHALE SOUND GENERATOR;

ACOUSTIC GENERATORS;

SEA WATER;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; APPARATUS; ARTICLE; MATHEMATICAL ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PHONATION; PREY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROTATION; SOUND; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL STRUCTURES; ANIMALS; DIVING; MODELS, BIOLOGICAL; MOVEMENT; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPERM WHALE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33745070243     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2184987     Document Type: Article

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