A large-aperture low-cost hydrophone array for tracking whales from small boats

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 126, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 2248-2256

  Miller, B ^a   Dawson, S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OTAGO   (New Zealand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FLOATING BUOY; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM RECEIVERS; HYDROPHONE ARRAYS; HYPERBOLIC LOCALIZATION; LARGE APERTURE; NEW ZEALAND; PASSIVE SONAR; SEQUENTIAL BOUNDS; SPERM WHALES; THREE DIMENSIONS;

BOATS; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HYDROPHONES; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

PROBABILITY DISTRIBUTIONS;

ARTICLE; CONTROLLED STUDY; COST CONTROL; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; HYDROPHONE ARRAY; NEW ZEALAND; NONHUMAN; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND TRANSMISSION; SPERM WHALE; THREE DIMENSIONAL IMAGING; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; DIVING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; NEW ZEALAND; SHIPS; SOUND LOCALIZATION; SPERM WHALE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 70449369250     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3238258     Document Type: Article

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