Marine Mammal Acoustic Tracking from Adapting HARP Technologies

Abstract

The long-term goal of this project is to track swimming and diving marine mammals using their sounds recorded by fixed autonomous acoustic recorders. These localizations will provide estimated acoustic detection ranges which are needed for population abundance estimations using distance sampling techniques (e.g. Buckland et al., 2001).

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2009
Accession Number
ADA531247

Entities

People

  • John A Hildebrand
  • Sean M. Wiggins

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Sensors

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustic Detection
  • Acoustic Tracking
  • Animals
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • Frequency
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • Odontocetes
  • Recording Systems
  • Sampling
  • Swimming
  • Three Dimensional
  • Whales

Readers

  • Marine Mammal Biology