Tracking of Pacific walruses in the Chukchi Sea using a single hydrophone

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 131, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 1349-1358

  Mouy, Xavier ^a   Hannay, David ^a   Zykov, Mikhail ^b   Martin, Bruce ^b  

^a JASCO Applied Sciences   (Canada)

^b JASCO Applied Sciences   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC MONITORING; ARRIVAL TIME; CHUKCHI SEA; DEEP DIVES; HORIZONTAL MOVEMENTS; LARGE REGIONS; LOCALIZATION TECHNIQUE; MULTI-PATH; PRODUCTION RATES; RAY-TRACING MODEL; SEA BOTTOM; SEMI-AUTOMATED; SOURCE LEVEL; SURFACE REFLECTED SIGNALS; UNDERWATER SOUND; VOCAL REPERTOIRE;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BELLS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; INSTRUMENTATION; PHYSIOLOGY; SEAL; SOUND DETECTION; SWIMMING; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SWIMMING; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WALRUSES;

EID: 84857395790     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3675008     Document Type: Article

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