Gray whale target strength measurements and the analysis of the backscattered response

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 121, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 1383-1391

  Lucifredi, Irena ^a   Stein, Peter J ^a  

^a Scientific Solutions Incorporated   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNAL PROCESSING; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; MACHINE DESIGN; MAMMALS; PRODUCT DEVELOPMENT; SONAR;

ACOUSTIC SIGNATURES; INHERENT CHARACTERISTICS; INTEGRATED MARINE MAMMAL MONITORING AND PROTECTION SYSTEM (IMPAS);

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENT; EXPERIMENTATION; MARINE MAMMAL; MEASUREMENT; MOTION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; TARGET VARIABLE; WHALE;

ANIMALS; ENVIRONMENT; MARINE BIOLOGY; MONITORING, PHYSIOLOGIC; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; WHALES;

EID: 34147138900     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2436643     Document Type: Article

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