Automated detection of white whale (delphinapterus leucas) vocalizations in St. Lawrence estuary and occurrence pattern

Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne

Volumn 34, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 84-85

  Bédard, Catherine ^a   Simard, Yvan ^a,b  

^a INSTITUT DES SCIENCES DE LA MER DE RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC SURFACE WAVE FILTERS; ACOUSTIC WAVE PROPAGATION; ALGORITHMS; DATA RECORDING; SPEECH ANALYSIS;

IMAGE FILTERS; SIGNAL PROCESSING ALGORITHMS; WHITE WHALES;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 33750173630     PISSN: 07116659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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