Three-dimensional localization of sperm whales using a single hydrophone

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2355-2365

  Tiemann, Christopher O ^a   Thode, Aaron M ^b   Straley, Janice ^c   O'Connell, Victoria ^d   Folkert, Kendall ^e  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA SOUTHEAST   (United States)

^d ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

^e NONE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RANGE-DEPENDENT BATHYMETRY; RAY REFRACTION; RAY-TRACE ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; WAVEGUIDE PROPAGATION PHYSICS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ALGORITHMS; AUTOMATION; HYDROPHONES; SENSORS;

BIODIVERSITY;

HYDROPHONE; UNCLASSIFIED DRUG;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; CLICK; DEPREDATION; ELECTRONIC SENSOR; FISHING; FORAGING; MOTION; NONHUMAN; PREDATOR AVOIDANCE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPERM WHALE; THREE DIMENTIONAL LOCALIZATION METHOD; WAVEFORM; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ALASKA; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DIVING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPERM WHALE;

EID: 33749552884     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2335577     Document Type: Article

References (47)

1. R. Leaper, O. Chappell, and J. Gordon, " The development of practical techniques for surveying sperm whale populations acoustically., " Rep. Int. Whal. Comm. 42, 549-560 (1992).
2. J. Barlow and B. L. Taylor, " Estimates of sperm whale abundance in the northeastern temperate Pacific from a combined acoustic and visual survey., " Marine Mammal Sci. 21 (3), 429-445 (2005).
3. C. W. Clark, W. T. Ellison, and K. Beeman, " Acoustic tracking of migrating bowhead whales., " IEEE Oceans Conference Proceedings 18, 341-346 (1986).
4. J. L. Spiesberger and K. M. Fristrup, " Passive localization of calling animals and sensing of their acoustic environment using acoustic tomography., " Am. Nat. 135, 107-153 (1990).
5. A. S. Frankel, C. W. Clark, L. M. Herman, and C. M. Gabriele, " Spatial distribution, habitat utilization, and social interactions of humpback whales, Megaptera novaeangliae, off Hawai'i determined using acoustic and visual techniques., " Can. J. Zool. 73, 1134-1146 (1995).
6. K. M. Stafford, C. G. Fox, and D. S. Clark, " Long-range acoustic detection and localization of blue whale calls in the northeast Pacific Ocean., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 104 (6), 3616-3625 (1998).
7. V. M. Janik, S. M. Van Parijs, and P. M. Thompson, " A two-dimensional acoustic localization system for marine mammals., " Marine Mammal Sci. 16, 437-447 (2000).
8. C. W. Clark and W. T. Ellison, " Calibration and comparison of acoustic location methods used during the spring migration of the bowhead whale, Balaena mysticetus, off Pt. Barrow, Alaska, 1984-1993., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107 (6), 3509-3517 (2000).
9. C. O. Tiemann, M. B. Porter, and J. A. Hildebrand, " Automated model-based localization of marine mammals near California., " in MTS/IEEE Oceans 2002 Conference Proceedings (Holland Publications, Escondido, CA,, 2002) pp. 1360-1364.
10. C. O. Tiemann, M. B. Porter, and L. N. Frazer, " Localization of marine mammals near Hawaii using an acoustic propagation model., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 115, 2834-2843 (2004).
11. A. Thode, " Three-dimensional passive acoustic tracking of sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in ray-refracting environments., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118 (6), 3575-3584 (2005).
12. E. K. Skarsoulis and M. A. Kalogerakis, " Ray-theoretic localization of an impulsive source in a stratified ocean using two hydrophones., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118 (5), 2934-2943 (2005).
13. R. Aubauer, M. O. Lammers, and W. W. L. Au, " One-hydrophone method of estimating distance and depth of phonating dolphins in shallow water., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107, 2744-2749 (2000).
14. P. A. Lepper, K. Kaschner, P. R. Connelly, and A. D. Goodson, " Development of a simplified ray path model for estimating the range and depth of vocalising marine animals., " in Proc. Inst. Acoust. (Institute of Acoustics, St. Albans, UK,, 1997), pp. 227-234.
15. W. Whitney, " Observations of sperm whale sounds from great depths., " Marine Physical Laboratory, Scripps Institution of Oceanography Report MPL-U-11/68, 1968.
16. A. Thode, D. K. Mellinger, S. Stienessen, A. Martinez, and K. Mullin, " Depth-dependent acoustic features of diving sperm whales (Physeter macrocephalus) in the Gulf of Mexico., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 112, 308-321 (2002).
17. A. Thode, " Tracking sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) dive profiles using a towed passive acoustic array., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 116, 245-253 (2004).
18. E. K. Skarsoulis, A. Frantzis, and M. Kalogerakis, " Passive localization of pulsed sound sources with a 2-hydrophone array., " Seventh European Conference on Underwater Acoustics (Delft, The Netherlands, 2004).
19. C. Laplanche, O. Adam, M. Lopatka, and J. Motsch, " Male sperm whale acoustic behavior observed from multipaths at a single hydrophone., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118, 2677-2687 (2005).
20. J. S. Perkins and W. A. Kuperman, " Environmental signal processing: Three-dimensional matched-field processing with a vertical array., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87, 1553-1556 (1990).
21. C. A. Zala and J. M. Ozard, " Matched-field processing in a range-dependent environment., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 88, 1011-1019 (1990).
22. W. A. Watkins, " Acoustics and the behavior of sperm whales., " in Animal Sonar Systems, edited by, R.-G. Busnel, and, J. F. Fish, (Plenum, New York, 1980), pp. 283-290.
23. W. A. Watkins, " Acoustic behaviors of sperm whales., " Curr. Appl. Phys. 20, 50-58 (1977).
24. H. Whitehead, " Estimates of the current global population size and historical trajectory for sperm whales., " Mar. Ecol.: Prog. Ser. 242, 295-304 (2002).
25. J. Barlow and B. L. Taylor, " Preliminary abundance of sperm whales in the northeastern temperate Pacific estimated from a combined visual and acoustic survey., " Int. Whal. Comm., 1998.
26. T. Lyrholm and U. Gyllensten, " Global matrilineal population structure in sperm whales as indicated by mitochondrial DNA sequences., " Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B 265 (1406), 1679-1684 (1998).
27. N. Jaquet, " How spatial and temporal scales influence understanding of Sperm Whale distribution: A review., " Mammal Rev. 26 (1), 51-65 (1996).
28. H. Whitehead, M. Dillon, S. Dufault, L. Weilgart, and J. Wright, " Non-geographically based population structure of south Pacific sperm whales: dialects, fluke-markings and genetics., " J. Anim. Ecol. 67 (2), 253-262 (1998).
29. T. Lyrholm, O. Leimar, B. Johanneson, and U. Gyllensten, " Sex-biased dispersal in sperm whales: Contrasting mitochondrial and nuclear genetic structure of global populations., " Proc. R. Soc. London, Ser. B 266 (1417), 347-354 (1999).
30. D. K. Mellinger, K. M. Stafford, and C. G. Fox, " Seasonal occurrence of sperm whale (Physeter macrocephalus) sounds in the Gulf of Alaska, 1999-2001., " Marine Mammal Sci. 20 (1), 48-62 (2004).
31. J. C. Goold and S. E. Jones, " Time and frequency-domain characteristics of sperm whale clicks., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 98, 1279-1291 (1995).
32. H. Whitehead and L. Weilgart, " Click rates from sperm whales., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 87, 1798-1806 (1990).
33. L. V. Worthington and W. E. Schevill, " Underwater sounds heard from sperm whales., " Nature (London) 180, 291 (1957).
34. A. Thode, J. Straley, C. Tiemann, V. Teloni, K. Folkert, T. O'Connell, and L. Behnken, " Sperm whale and longline fisheries interactions in the Gulf of Alaska-Passive acoustic component., " North Pacific Research Board Final Report F0412, 2005, 57.
35. P. S. Hill, J. L. Laake, and E. Mitchell, " Results of a pilot program to document interactions between sperm whales and longline vessels in Alaska waters., " U.S Department of Commerce, 1999, 42.
36. W. C. Burgess, " The bioacoustic probe: A general-purpose acoustic recording tag., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 108 (5) Pt. 2, 2583 (2000).
37. H. Whitehead, Sperm Whales: Social Evolution in the Ocean (University of Chicago Press, Chicago, IL, 2003).
38. L. A. Douglas, S. M. Dawson, and N. Jaquet, " Click rates and silences of sperm whales at Kaikoura, New Zealand., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 118 (1), 523-529 (2005).
39. D. K. Mellinger, " Ishmael 1.0 User's Guide., " NOAA Tech. Memo. OAR PMEL-120, 2001, 26.
40. M. B. Porter and H. P. Bucker, " Gaussian beam tracing for computing ocean acoustic fields., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 82 (4), 1349-1359 (1987).
41. M. B. Porter and Y. C. Liu, " Finite-element ray tracing., " in Proceedings of the International Conference on Theoretical and Computational Acoustics, edited by, D. Lee, and, M. H. Schultz, (World Scientific, Singapore, 1994), pp. 947-956.
42. F. B. Jensen, W. A. Kuperman, M. B. Porter, and H. Schmidt, Computational Ocean Acoustics (American Institute of Physics, Melville, NY, 1999), p. 41.
43. E. L. Hamilton, " Geoacoustic modeling of the sea floor., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 68, 1313-1340 (1980).
44. P. J. O. Miller, M. P. Johnson, P. L. Tyack, and E. A. Terray, " Swimming gaits, passive drag and buoyancy of diving sperm whales Physeter macrocephalus., " J. Exp. Biol. 207 (11), 1953-1967 (2004).
45. W. M. X. Zimmer, P. L. Tyack, M. P. Johnson, and P. T. Madsen, " Three-dimensional beam pattern of regular sperm whale clicks confirms bent-horn hypothesis., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 117, 1473-1485 (2005).
46. B. Møhl, M. Wahlberg, P. T. Madsen, L. A. Miller, and A. Surlykke, " Sperm whale clicks: Directionality and source level revisited., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 107, 638-648 (2000).
47. G. L. D'Spain, J. J. Murray, W. S. Hodgkiss, N. O. Booth, and P. W. Schey, " Mirages in shallow water matched field processing., " J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 105, 3245-3265 (1999).