Estimating whale density from their whistling activity: Example with St. Lawrence beluga

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 71, Issue 11, 2010, Pages 1081-1086

  Simard, Y ^a,b   Roy, N ^b   Giard, S ^b   Gervaise, C ^c   Conversano, M ^a   Menard N ^d  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À RIMOUSKI   (Canada)

^b MAURICE LAMONTAGNE INSTITUTE   (Canada)

^c ENSIETA   (France)

^d PARKS CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

Beluga; Estimation; Passive acoustic monitoring (PAM); Saguenay; Sound; St. Lawrence

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVES; BINS; ESTIMATION; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SHIPS;

BELUGA; DELPHINAPTERUS LEUCAS; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING; SAGUENAY; ST. LAWRENCE; TIME-FREQUENCY SPACE; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS; WEIGHTED REGRESSION;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 78049406010     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2010.05.013     Document Type: Conference Paper

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