Separating overlapping click trains originating from multiple individuals in echolocation recordings

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 458-466

  Starkhammar, Josefin ^a   Nilsson, Johan ^a   Amundin, Mats ^b   Kuczaj II, Stan A ^c   Almqvist, Monica ^a   Persson, Hans W ^a  

^a LUND UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b Linökping University   (Sweden)

^c University of Southern Mississippi   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ACTIVITY; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHINS; CLICK TRAINS; COMPUTATIONALLY EFFICIENT; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; INDIVIDUAL-BASED; THRESHOLD LEVELS; WHITE GAUSSIAN NOISE;

ANIMALS; GAUSSIAN NOISE (ELECTRONIC); LOCOMOTIVES; RAILROAD CARS; SPECTROSCOPY; UNDERWATER AUDITION;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BOTTLENOSE DOLPHIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOLOCATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SWIMMING; TIME; TRANSDUCER; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BOTTLE-NOSED DOLPHIN; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ECHOLOCATION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 79551655976     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3519404     Document Type: Article

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