Neuro-computational processing of moving sonar echoes classifies and localizes foliage

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 116, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 1811-1818

  Kuc, Roman ^a  

^a Yale University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MIRRORS; TRAJECTORIES;

ECHOES; HYPERBOLIC CURVES; NEURAL METHODS;

SONAR;

ARTICLE; BAT; FOLIAGE; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; VELOCITY; WOODY STEM;

ACOUSTIC STIMULATION; ANIMALS; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; NEURAL NETWORKS (COMPUTER); TREES; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 4444314490     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1779273     Document Type: Article

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