Separation of Sperm Whale Click-Trains for Multipath Rejection and Localization

Abstract

In this report, an algorithm is described for separation and grouping of sperm whale clicks received at a single hydrophone. The clicks are separated into click-trains from separate animals and separate propagation paths. The improvement possible in animal localization using multisensor data is then demonstrated. A localization algorithm is described that can handle multiple whales and that provides estimates of the Cramer-Rao lower bound for the position estimates.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Mar 05, 2010
Accession Number
ADA522496

Entities

People

  • Paul Baggenstoss

Organizations

  • Naval Undersea Warfare Center

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes
  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Algorithms
  • Animals
  • Case Studies
  • Data Science
  • Data Sets
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Frequency Domain
  • Hydrophones
  • Information Science
  • Marine Mammals
  • Odontocetes
  • Probability
  • Rejection
  • Standards
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Statistics

Readers

  • Marine Mammal Biology
  • Radar Systems Engineering.