Acoustic detection of North Atlantic right whale contact calls using spectrogram-based statistics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 122, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 769-776

  Urazghildiiev, Ildar R ^a   Clark, Christopher W ^a  

^a Johnson Center for Birds and Biodiversity   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FIR FILTERS; FISH; SIGNAL DETECTION; SPECTROGRAPHS; STATISTICAL METHODS;

EUBALAENA GLACIALIS; GENERALIZED LIKELIHOOD RATIO TEST (GLRT); SPECTROGRAM-BASED STATISTICS;

ACOUSTIC WAVES;

ARTICLE; FILTER; INFRARED SPECTROSCOPY; KERNEL METHOD; NOISE; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; STATISTICAL MODEL; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; BIOMETRY; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECHOLOCATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 34547628866     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2747201     Document Type: Article

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