Effects of Sound on the Marine Environment
Abstract
The long-term goals are to develop novel techniques to predict the effect of sound on the marine environment. This includes studying how marine life uses sound and how this use is impacted by human activity. One objective of this research is to develop a framework for the Navy to predict how various sonar systems impact the marine environment. The ONR program, Effects of Sound on the Marine Environment (ESME) has produced numerous innovative tools from scientists in academia, government and industry. Under ESME, these were initially assembled in a high level prototyping software environment for evaluation by the scientific team. The ESME team determined that some of these tools could have immediate value to the sonar and marine biology communities if they were available and were easy to use (e.g. through development of environmental impact statements). Starting in 2007, the ESME program has put together a team consisting Boston University (David Mountain), Biomimetica (Dorian Houser) and HLS Research to establish which ESME tools could be made available and to develop a simple user interface. The new ESME software suite will be open source and will not require Matlab.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2007
- Accession Number
- ADA507531
Entities
People
- Martin Siderius
- Michael Porter