Spectral probability density as a tool for ambient noise analysis

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 133, Issue 4, 2013, Pages

  Merchant, Nathan D ^a   Barton, Tim R ^b   Thompson, Paul M ^b   Pirotta, Enrico ^b   Dakin, D Tom ^c   Dorocicz, John ^c  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AMBIENT NOISE SPECTRA; CONVENTIONAL TECHNIQUES; EMPIRICAL PROBABILITIES; FREQUENCY SPECTRA; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING; PROBABILITY DENSITIES; SPECTRAL AVERAGES; STATISTICAL DISTRIBUTION;

POWER SPECTRAL DENSITY;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

WATER;

ARTICLE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT; FOURIER ANALYSIS; METHODOLOGY; MOTION; NOISE; PRESSURE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; PROBABILITY; SEA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; THEORETICAL MODEL; TIME; ULTRASOUND;

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FOURIER ANALYSIS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; MOTION; NOISE; OCEANS AND SEAS; PRESSURE; PROBABILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; ULTRASONICS; WATER;

EID: 84876101848     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4794934     Document Type: Article

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