Automatic detection of marine mammals using information entropy

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 124, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 2833-2840

  Erbe, Christine ^a   King, Andrew R ^b  

^a JASCO Applied Sciences Ltd   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMOUNT OF INFORMATIONS; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATIONS; AUTOMATIC DETECTIONS; AUTOMATIC DETECTORS; AUTOMATIC SIGNALS; CANADIAN ARCTIC; ENERGY DETECTIONS; ENTROPY MEASURES; IDENTIFICATION ALGORITHMS; INFORMATION ENTROPIES; MARINE MAMMALS; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING; PERFORMANCE COMPARISONS; POTENTIAL SIGNALS; REAL TIMES; RECEIVER OPERATING CHARACTERISTIC CURVES; SPECTRAL ENTROPIES;

AUTOMATIC INDEXING; DETECTORS; ENTROPY; SIGNAL ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

MAMMALS;

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ENTROPY; MARINE MAMMAL; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; ROC CURVE; SEA; SEAL; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ANIMAL COMMUNICATION; ANIMALS; ARCTIC REGIONS; AUTOMATION; CETACEA; ECOSYSTEM; ENTROPY; MAMMALS; OCEANS AND SEAS; PINNIPEDIA; SEAWATER;

EID: 56749160796     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2982368     Document Type: Article

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