Listening to the Deep: Live monitoring of ocean noise and cetacean acoustic signals

Marine Pollution Bulletin

Volumn 63, Issue 1-4, 2011, Pages 18-26

  Andre M ^a   van der Schaar, M ^a   Zaugg, S ^a   Houegnigan L ^a   Sanchez A M ^a   Castell, J V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITAT POLITÈCNICA DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Cetaceans; Deep sea observatories; Noise mitigation; Noise pollution; Passive acoustic monitoring

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; AMBIENT NOISE; ARTIFICIAL NOISE; CETACEANS; DEEP OCEAN; DEEP-SEA OBSERVATORIES; DETECTING TARGET; HIGH FREQUENCY; INTERNATIONAL PROJECTS; LONG TERM MONITORING; MARINE MAMMALS; MARINE ORGANISMS; MILITARY EXERCISE; NOISE MITIGATION; OCEAN NOISE; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING; REAL-TIME DATA; SCIENTIFIC COMMUNITY; TEMPORAL SCALE;

ACOUSTIC MEASURING INSTRUMENTS; BUILDINGS; MAMMALS; MARINE BIOLOGY; NOISE POLLUTION; OBSERVATORIES;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

AMBIENT NOISE; CETACEAN; DEEP-SEA ORGANISM; ECHOLOCATION; MARINE ECOSYSTEM; MARINE MAMMAL; NOISE POLLUTION;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; ECHOLOCATION; ECOSYSTEM; MARINE SPECIES; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE POLLUTION; NONHUMAN; POLLUTION MONITORING; SIGNAL DETECTION; SOUND DETECTION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; AUDITORY PERCEPTION; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; NOISE; OCEANS AND SEAS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

CETACEA; MAMMALIA; ZIPHIIDAE;

EID: 79958747196     PISSN: 0025326X     EISSN: 18793363     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.marpolbul.2011.04.038     Document Type: Article

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