Automatic Round-the-Clock Detection of Whales for Mitigation from Underwater Noise Impacts

PLoS ONE

Volumn 8, Issue 8, 2013, Pages

  Zitterbart, Daniel P ^a,b   Kindermann, Lars ^a   Burkhardt, Elke ^a   Boebel, Olaf ^a  

^a ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ERLANGEN NUREMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ARTICLE; AUTOMATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; MARINE MAMMAL; NOISE MEASUREMENT; NOISE REDUCTION; NONHUMAN; ORGANISMAL INTERACTION; PROBABILITY; RELIABILITY; SOUND DETECTION; SOUND LEVEL MEASUREMENT; SUNLIGHT; THERMOGRAPHY; WHALE;

ANIMAL MIGRATION; ANIMALS; NOISE; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; ROC CURVE; WHALES;

EID: 84881501392     PISSN: None     EISSN: 19326203     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1371/journal.pone.0071217     Document Type: Article

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