Tracking fin whale calls offshore the Galicia Margin, North East Atlantic Ocean

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 4, 2006, Pages 2077-2085

  Gaspà Rebull, Oriol ^a   Cusí, Jordi Díaz ^a   Ruiz Fernández, Mario ^a   Muset, Josep Gallart ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DATA SETS; FIN WHALE CALLS; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETERS (OBS); VOCALIZATIONS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; BIOCOMMUNICATIONS; DATA ACQUISITION; MARINE BIOLOGY; PROBLEM SOLVING; SEISMOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; TRACKING (POSITION);

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL BEHAVIOR; ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; DEVICE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NONHUMAN; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VELOCITY; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; FIN WHALE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 33749575129     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2336751     Document Type: Article

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