Methods for tracking multiple marine mammals with wide-baseline passive acoustic arrays

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 2383-2392

  Nosal, Eva Marie ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

HIGHER-DIMENSIONAL; LOCALIZATION METHOD; MARINE MAMMALS; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; SPERM WHALES; TIME OF ARRIVAL; TIME-DIFFERENCES; TRACKING METHOD;

MAMMALS; SEPARATION;

BIOACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; COMPUTER SIMULATION; CONFERENCE PAPER; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MARINE BIOLOGY; METHODOLOGY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PSYCHOLOGICAL ASPECT; SEA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPERM WHALE; SWIMMING; TIME; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; MARINE BIOLOGY; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPERM WHALE; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84878943985     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4816549     Document Type: Conference Paper

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