Tracking blue whales in the eastern tropical Pacific with an ocean-bottom seismometer and hydrophone array

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 3, 2009, Pages 1084-1094

  Dunn, Robert A ^a   Hernandez, Olga ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

^b CLS   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AIR GUNS; BAYESIAN INVERSION; BEHAVIORAL RESPONSE; BLUE WHALE; BOTTOM-MOUNTED HYDROPHONES; CALL TYPES; EAST PACIFIC RISE; EASTERN TROPICAL PACIFIC; HYDROPHONE ARRAYS; LOW FREQUENCY; THREE-COMPONENT;

EARTH ATMOSPHERE; HYDROPHONES; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEISMOGRAPHS;

SEISMOLOGY;

ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BEHAVIOR; CONTROLLED STUDY; NONHUMAN; PACIFIC OCEAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SHIP; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; ANIMALS, WILD; BAYES THEOREM; ELECTRONICS; FIREARMS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 70349114686     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3158929     Document Type: Article

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