Definition of the Antarctic and Pygmy blue whale call templates. Application to fast automatic detection

Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 93-103

  Flore, Samaran ^a   Adam, Olivier ^b   Motsch, Jean François ^b   Guinet, Christophe ^a  

^a CNRS   (France)

^b UNIVERSITÉ PARIS EST   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER NETWORKS; REAL TIME SYSTEMS;

AUTOMATIC DETECTION; BLUE WHALES;

SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO;

EID: 51449095564     PISSN: 07116659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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