Tracking beaked whales with a passive acoustic profiler float

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 731-740

  Matsumoto, Haru ^a   Jones, Christopher ^b   Klinck, Holger ^a   Mellinger, David K ^a   Dziak, Robert P ^a   Meinig, Christian ^c  

^a OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c NOAA EARTH SYSTEM RESEARCH LABORATORY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ACOUSTIC TESTS; BAHAMAS; DETECTION ALGORITHM; FIELD TEST; MARINE MAMMAL MONITORING; MARINE MAMMALS; MOBILE PLATFORM; NEAR-REAL TIME; OPERATIONAL CAPABILITIES; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; TEST AND EVALUATION; WEATHER CONDITIONS;

MAMMALS;

BIOACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHM; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; PRESSURE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; SEA; SIGNAL NOISE RATIO; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; TIME; VOCALIZATION; WHALE;

ACOUSTICS; ALGORITHMS; ANIMALS; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MOTION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PRESSURE; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SIGNAL-TO-NOISE RATIO; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WHALES;

EID: 84873338846     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4773260     Document Type: Article

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