Development and experimentation of a satellite buoy network for real-time acoustic localization of whales in the St. Lawrence

OCEANS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Simard, Y ^a,e   Bahoura, M ^b   Park, C W ^b   Rouat, J ^c   Sirois, M ^d   Mouy, X ^a   Seebaruth, D ^d   Roy, N ^e   Lepage, R ^a  

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

^b UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

^d Bureau 3D   (Canada)

^e MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; BUOYANCY; COMPUTER NETWORKS; DISKS (STRUCTURAL COMPONENTS); ELECTROACOUSTIC TRANSDUCERS; FLUID MECHANICS; INTEGRATED OPTICS; IRIDIUM; MAMMALS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; POROUS MATERIALS; SATELLITE OBSERVATORIES; SATELLITES; SHIPS; SPACE PLATFORMS; SPACECRAFT OBSERVATORIES; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

CONTINUOUS SPACES; HARD DISKS; RF COMMUNICATIONS;

CONTINUOUS TIME SYSTEMS;

EID: 50949092317     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2006.307052     Document Type: Conference Paper

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