Quantifying bat call detection performance of humans and machines

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 125, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 513-521

  Skowronski, Mark D ^a   Fenton, M Brock ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WESTERN ONTARIO   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION PERFORMANCES; ECHOLOCATION CALLS; EFFECTIVE RANGE; FIELD STUDIES; HUMAN DETECTION; NARROW BANDS; RECORDING SYSTEMS; SIGNIFICANT FACTOR;

FREQUENCY BANDS; MAMMALS; RECORDING INSTRUMENTS;

DETECTORS;

ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; AUTOMATIC DATA PROCESSING; CHIROPTERA; ECHOLOCATION; HUMANS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; SIGNAL DETECTION, PSYCHOLOGICAL; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 58649103102     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3025913     Document Type: Article

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