Using a coherent hydrophone array for observing sperm whale range, classification, and shallow-water dive profiles

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 135, Issue 6, 2014, Pages 3352-3363

  Tran, Duong D ^a   Huang, Wei ^a   Bohn, Alexander C ^a   Wang, Delin ^a   Gong, Zheng ^b   Makris, Nicholas C ^b   Ratilal, Purnima ^a  

^a Northeastern University   (United States)

^b Massachusetts Institute of Technology   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; PHYSICS;

COHERENT ARRAY PROCESSING; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; HORIZONTAL ARRAYS; HYDROPHONE ARRAY SYSTEM; PROPAGATION MODELING; TIME DIFFERENCE OF ARRIVAL; TIME-DOMAIN BEAMFORMING; TRIANGULATION TECHNIQUES;

OCEAN CURRENTS;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; CLASSIFICATION; DEVICES; DIVING; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SPERM WHALE; TIME FACTOR; TRANSDUCER; VOCALIZATION;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; DIVING; ECHOLOCATION; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; EQUIPMENT DESIGN; MOTION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SPERM WHALE; TIME FACTORS; TRANSDUCERS; VOCALIZATION, ANIMAL; WATER;

EID: 84903215505     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4874601     Document Type: Article

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