Beaked whale and dolphin tracking using a multichannel autonomous acoustic recorder

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 156-163

  Wiggins, Sean M ^a   McDonald, Mark A ^b   Hildebrand, John A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b WhaleAcoustics   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DETECTION PROBABILITIES; DETECTION RANGE; ECHOLOCATION CLICKS; HIGH FREQUENCY; HIGH FREQUENCY HF; HYDROPHONE ARRAYS; MULTI-CHANNEL; ODONTOCETES; SMALL APERTURE; SOUTHERN CALIFORNIA; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL MEASUREMENTS;

ANIMALS; HYDROPHONES; SENSORS;

DOLPHINS (STRUCTURES);

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; DOLPHIN; ECHOLOCATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; INFORMATION PROCESSING; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; RECORDING; SOUND DETECTION; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; DATA COLLECTION; DOLPHINS; ECHOLOCATION; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TAPE RECORDING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 84855927217     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3662076     Document Type: Article

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