A tool for real-time acoustic species identification of delphinid whistles

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 587-595

  Oswald, Julie N ^a   Rankin, Shannon ^b   Barlow, Jay ^b   Lammers, Marc O ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANIMALS; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; HARMONIC GENERATION; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPEECH RECOGNITION;

ACOUSTIC SPECIES; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS (DFA); INFLECTION POINTS;

SPEECH SYNTHESIS;

ANIMAL EXPERIMENT; ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; COMMON DOLPHIN; COMPUTER PROGRAM; CONTROLLED STUDY; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; NONHUMAN; PILOT WHALE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOUND DETECTION; STENELLA; WHISTLEBLOWING; ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DOLPHIN; INSTRUMENTATION; PACIFIC OCEAN; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; DOLPHINS; PACIFIC OCEAN; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SOFTWARE; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 34547457213     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2743157     Document Type: Article

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