Hull-mounted hydrophones for passive acoustic detection and tracking of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus)

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 67, Issue 11-12, 2006, Pages 1175-1186

  Nielsen, Bjarke Klit ^a   Møhl, Bertel ^a  

^a AARHUS UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

Acoustic detection; Bearing estimation; Hull mounted hydrophone; Sperm whale; Tracking

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; CONDITION MONITORING; FOULING; MARINE BIOLOGY; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; PROBLEM SOLVING; RISK ASSESSMENT; TRACKING (POSITION);

ACOUSTIC DETECTION; BEARING ESTIMATION; HULL-MOUNTED HYDROPHONES; SPERM WHALE;

HYDROPHONES;

EID: 33748852069     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2006.05.008     Document Type: Article

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