Passive acoustic detection and localization of whales: Effects of shipping noise in Saguenay-St. Lawrence Marine Park

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 123, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 4109-4117

  Simard, Yvan ^a,b   Roy, Nathalie ^a,b   Gervaise, Cédric ^c  

^a MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

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

^c ENSIETA   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; DETECTORS; ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FUNCTIONS; HYDROPHONES; MULTITASKING; PARKS; PHOTOACOUSTIC EFFECT; PROBABILITY; RISK ASSESSMENT;

ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); BLUE (BALAENOPTERA MUSCULUS) WHALES; CHANNEL AXIS; DETECTION FUNCTIONS; ENVIRONMENTAL CONDITIONING; HYDROPHONE ARRAYS; INFRASOUNDS; LARGE APERTURES; LOW NOISE; MARINE PARKS; NOISE LEVELS; NOISE STATISTICS; NORMAL MODES; OCEAN NOISE; OPTIMAL DEPTH; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC DETECTION; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING (PAM); PROBABILITY DENSITIES; UNDER-SAMPLING; VISUAL METHODS;

PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION;

ACOUSTICS; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL EXPOSURE; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NOISE; NONHUMAN; OCEANIC REGIONS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SUMMER; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ECOSYSTEM; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FIN WHALE; PROBABILITY; QUEBEC; RIVERS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 44949090478     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2912453     Document Type: Conference Paper

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