Mapping underwater sound noise and assessing its sources by using a self-organizing maps method

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1368-1376

  Rako, Nikolina ^a   Vilibić, Ivica ^b   Mihanović, Hrvoje ^c  

^a Blue World Institute of Marine Research and Conservation   (Croatia)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY AND FISHERIES   (Croatia)

^c Hydrographic Institute of the Republic of Croatia   (Croatia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANTHROPOGENIC SOURCES; MARINE CONSERVATIONS; MONITORING STATIONS; RECREATIONAL VESSELS; SELF-ORGANIZING MAP (SOM); SOUND PRESSURE LEVEL; SYSTEMATIC SAMPLING; VESSEL DISTRIBUTION;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE TRANSMISSION; CONFORMAL MAPPING; FISHING VESSELS; NOISE POLLUTION; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NOISE; PRESSURE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; SEA; SEASON; SHIP; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; TRAFFIC NOISE; TRAVEL; WATER FLOW; WIND;

ACOUSTICS; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NOISE; NOISE, TRANSPORTATION; OCEANS AND SEAS; PRESSURE; SEASONS; SHIPS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; TRAVEL; WATER; WATER MOVEMENTS; WIND;

EID: 84874907945     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4789003     Document Type: Article

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