A generalized baleen whale call detection and classification system

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2889-2902

  Baumgartner, Mark F ^a   Mussoline, Sarah E ^a  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; AUTOMATED DETECTION; AUTOMATED DETECTION AND CLASSIFICATION; BALEEN WHALES; BOREALIS; BROAD APPLICATION; BROADBAND NOISE; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEM; DISCRIMINANT FUNCTION ANALYSIS; EUBALAENA GLACIALIS; GULF OF MAINE; LOW FREQUENCY; MARINE MAMMALS; NARROW BANDS; NORTH ATLANTIC; OCCURRENCE AND DISTRIBUTION; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING; PITCH-TRACKING; RIGHT WHALES; SEI WHALE; SPATIAL SCALE; SPRING SEASON; TEMPORAL VARIABILITY; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

MAMMALS;

DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BALAENOPTERA; CLASSIFICATION; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMAN; IMAGE SUBTRACTION; INSTRUMENTATION; MARINE BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; NOISE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PHYSIOLOGY; PSYCHOPHYSICS; RECORDING; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; BALAENOPTERA; COPYING PROCESSES; DISCRIMINANT ANALYSIS; ENDANGERED SPECIES; HUMANS; MARINE BIOLOGY; NOISE; OBSERVER VARIATION; PSYCHOACOUSTICS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SUBTRACTION TECHNIQUE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 79959583261     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3562166     Document Type: Article

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