Results of Marine Mammal Surveys on US Navy Underwater Ranges in Hawaii and Bahamas

Abstract

Aerial surveys of marine mammals were performed as part of the Marine Mammal Monitoring on Navy Undersea Acoustic Ranges (3MR) program. Surveys were performed in three regions: a) Pacific Missile Range Facility (PMRF), Barking Sands, Kauai (BSURE and BARSTUR ranges; July 12-Nov 17, 2002); b) Bahamas (Northwest Providence Channel and AUTEC range; Jan 4-12, 2003); and c) main Hawaiian Islands (Feb 21-Apr 5, 2003). The mission was to identify species and record positions and composition of all marine mammal pods sighted. These data were made available to co-investigators (Martin and Moretti) of the 3MR program in order to correlate the visual positions with acoustic localizations using Navy assets. Methods used were consistent with those of modern distance sampling theory.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 22, 2004
Accession Number
ADA421488

Entities

People

  • Joseph R. Mobley Jr

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Air Platforms
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Detection
  • Acoustic Ranges
  • Aerial Surveys
  • Animals
  • Cetaceans
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Fish
  • Habitats
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • Monitoring
  • Odontocetes
  • Sampling
  • Surveys
  • Test And Evaluation
  • Wildlife

Fields of Study

  • Physics

Readers

  • Marine Mammal Biology
  • Technical Research and Report Writing.