BRS Acoustic Analysis, Southern California Behavioral Response Study SOCAL Range Complex Marine Mammal Monitoring Support
Abstract
The Behavioral Response Studies are intended to collect information which will enable the Navy to minimize negative impact on marine mammals related to sonar and other sources of anthropogenic sound in the marine environment from Navy training operations. The Whale Identification, Logging and Display (WILD) software is intended to be a solution which provides the situational awareness needed to conduct controlled exposure experiments safely while thoroughly documenting the events and context in which they occur. It must also support typical marine mammal density survey operations. The long term goals for WILD system upgrades and modifications will be based on recommendations made from use on the MED 09 and SOCAL 10 sea trials. WILD must be a flexible, easy to use software solution that records, integrates and displays visual and acoustic observations of marine mammals, research vessels, sonobuoy locations, and other contextual information relevant to the experiments and their analysis. WILD must also support typical survey, focal follow, and mitigation operations. WILD must have little or no software licensing costs to the user community.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 2010
- Accession Number
- ADA541565
Entities
People
- Christopher Kyburg
- Rowena Carlson
Organizations
- Naval Information Warfare Systems Command