Applying distance sampling to fin whale calls recorded by single seismic instruments in the northeast Atlantic

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 134, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 3522-3535

  Harris, Danielle ^a   Matias, Luis ^b   Thomas, Len ^a   Harwood, John ^a   Geissler, Wolfram H ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LISBON   (Portugal)

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

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DISTANCE SAMPLING; EARTHQUAKE LOCATION; NORTH EAST ATLANTIC; OCEAN BOTTOM SEISMOMETER; PASSIVE ACOUSTICS; PROBABILITY OF DETECTION; SEISMIC INSTRUMENTS; TRANSECT SAMPLING;

FINS (HEAT EXCHANGE); SEISMOLOGY;

ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; ATLANTIC OCEAN; AUTOMATED PATTERN RECOGNITION; CLASSIFICATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIN WHALE; FIREARM; METHODOLOGY; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESSURE; PRESSURE TRANSDUCER; REPRODUCIBILITY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND DETECTION; SPECIES DIFFERENCE; SWIMMING; TIME; VALIDATION STUDY; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; ATLANTIC OCEAN; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; FIN WHALE; FIREARMS; OCEANOGRAPHY; PATTERN RECOGNITION, AUTOMATED; POPULATION DENSITY; PRESSURE; REPRODUCIBILITY OF RESULTS; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPECIES SPECIFICITY; SWIMMING; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS, PRESSURE; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL;

EID: 84887468130     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4821207     Document Type: Article

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