Performance of a contour-based classification method for whistles of mediterranean delphinids

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1063-1069

  Gannier, Alexandre ^a   Fuchs, Sandra ^a   Quèbre, Paméla ^b   Oswald, Julie N ^c  

^a Groupe de Recherche sur les Cetaces GREC   (France)

^b STATION MARINE D ENDOUME   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Classification; Dolphins; Mediterranean sea; Pilot whale; Spectrogram; Whistles

Indexed keywords

CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); MATLAB; SIGNALING;

CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CLASSIFICATION RATES; MEDITERRANEAN SEA; PILOT WHALE; SAMPLING FREQUENCIES; SPECTROGRAMS; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN SEA; WHISTLES;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

EID: 78049400960     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2010.05.019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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