Density estimation of Yangtze finless porpoises using passive acoustic sensors and automated click train detection

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 128, Issue 3, 2010, Pages 1435-1445

  Kimura, Satoko ^a   Akamatsu, Tomonari ^b   Li, Songhai ^c   Dong, Shouyue ^c   Dong, Lijun ^c   Wang, Kexiong ^c   Wang, Ding ^c   Arai, Nobuaki ^a  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b FISHERIES RESEARCH AGENCY   (Japan)

^c INSTITUTE OF HYDROBIOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

A-DENSITY; BEAM PATTERN; CLICK TRAINS; DENSITY ESTIMATION; DETECTION RATES; FALSE-ALARM RATES; FINLESS PORPOISE; GROUP SIZE; LONG TERM MONITORING; MEAN DENSITY; OFF-LINE FILTERS; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC SENSOR; POYANG LAKE; PRODUCTION RATES; PROPAGATION MODELS; SEASONAL MIGRATION; SOURCE LEVEL; STEREO ACOUSTICS; YANGTZE FINLESS PORPOISE; YANGTZE RIVER;

LAKES; LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD CARS; SENSORS; WATER ANALYSIS;

MAMMALS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; CHINA; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; POPULATION MIGRATION; PORPOISE; REPRODUCIBILITY; SEASON; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TRANSDUCER; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; CHINA; MODELS, THEORETICAL; POPULATION DENSITY; PORPOISES; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SEASONS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TRANSDUCERS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 77956406188     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3442574     Document Type: Article

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