Passive acoustics for monitoring marine animals - Progress and challenges

1st Australasian Acoustical Societies' Conference 2006, ACOUSTICS 2006: Noise of Progress

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages 453-460

  Cato, Douglas ^a   McCauley, Robert ^b   Rogers, Tracey ^c   Noad, Michael ^d  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

^d UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC PROPAGATION; MARINE ANIMALS; MARINE MAMMALS; PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; PASSIVE MONITORING; ROBUST METHODS; UNDERWATER SOUND;

ACOUSTIC NOISE; MAMMALS; SURVEYS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

BIOACOUSTICS;

EID: 84880163521     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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