A real-time method for autonomous passive acoustic detection-classification of humpback whales

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 127, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 2894-2903

  Abbot, Ted A ^a   Premus, Vincent E ^a   Abbot, Philip A ^a  

^a Ocean Acoustical Services and Instrumentation Systems (OASIS) Inc   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FALSE ALARM RATE; FIXED TIME INTERVAL; HUMPBACK WHALES; JOINT DETECTION; MULTIPLE CORRELATION; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC DETECTION; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; PROBABILITY OF FALSE ALARM; REAL TIME; SPECTROGRAMS;

ERRORS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; HUMPBACK WHALE; PHYSIOLOGY; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; UNITED STATES; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ALASKA; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; HAWAII; HUMPBACK WHALE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77956237007     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3365255     Document Type: Article

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