Detection of leopard seal (Hydrurga leptonyx) vocalizations using the Envelope-Spectrogram Technique (TEST) in combination with a Hidden Markov model

Canadian Acoustics - Acoustique Canadienne

Volumn 36, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 118-124

  Klinck, Holger ^a   Kindermann, Lars ^a   Boebel, Olaf ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

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Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC INTENSITY; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; FREQUENCY BANDS; HIDDEN MARKOV MODELS; LEARNING SYSTEMS; MARKOV PROCESSES; OBJECT RECOGNITION; SENSOR NETWORKS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; SPECTROGRAPHS; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS; TESTING;

MARINE MAMMALS; SPECTROGRAM TECHNIQUE;

MAMMALS;

EID: 51449120276     PISSN: 07116659     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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