Cetacean population density estimation from single fixed sensors using passive acoustics

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3610-3622

  Küsel, Elizabeth T ^a   Mellinger, David K ^a   Thomas, Len ^b   Marques, Tiago A ^c   Moretti, David ^d   Ward, Jessica ^d  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

^d NAVAL UNDERSEA WARFARE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; ANIMAL POPULATIONS; BAHAMAS; BEAM PATTERN; DATA SAMPLE; DENSITY ESTIMATION; DENSITY ESTIMATION METHODS; FALSE POSITIVE RATES; MANUAL ANALYSIS; MONTE CARLO; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; PASSIVE SONAR; POPULATION DENSITY ESTIMATION; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; SIGNAL TO NOISE; SINGLE SENSOR; SOURCE LEVEL; TRANSMISSION LOSS;

ANIMALS; ESTIMATION; POPULATION DISTRIBUTION; POPULATION DYNAMICS; PROBABILITY; PROBABILITY DENSITY FUNCTION; SENSORS; SIGNAL TO NOISE RATIO; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; INSTRUMENTATION; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MONTE CARLO METHOD; POPULATION DENSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 79959438404     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3583504     Document Type: Article

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