Time-frequency analysis and modeling of the backscatter of categorized dolphin echolocation clicks for target discrimination

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 657-666

  Muller, Mark W ^a,b   Allen III, John S ^a   Au, Whitlow W L ^b   Nachtigall, Paul E ^b  

^a University of Hawaii at Manoa   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES); SONAR; STANDARDS; UNDERWATER AUDITION;

ACOUSTIC SCATTERING; ACOUSTICAL SOCIETY OF AMERICA (ASA); ATLANTIC; BAYESIAN INFORMATION CRITERION (BIC); CENTER FREQUENCY (CF); CORRELATION VALUES; CORRELATOR; ECHO SIGNALS; ECHOLOCATION CLICKS; EXPERIMENTAL VALUES; FREQUENCY CHARACTERISTICS; KANEOHE BAY; MATERIAL COMPOSITIONS; MODEL BASED (OPC); REDUCED INTERFERENCE DISTRIBUTION (RID); SCATTERING MODELS; SPHERICAL(PIVOT); TARGET DISCRIMINATION; TARGET INFORMATION; TIME FREQUENCIES; TIME FREQUENCY ANALYSIS (TFA);

TARGETS;

ARTICLE; AUDITORY DISCRIMINATION; BAYES THEOREM; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; CLICK; ECHOLOCATION; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TIME; UNITED STATES;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; DISCRIMINATION (PSYCHOLOGY); DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL DETECTION (PSYCHOLOGY);

EID: 47649105662     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2932060     Document Type: Article

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