Habitat Modeling of Marine Mammals as Function of Oceanographic Characteristics; Development of Predictive Tools for Assessing and Managing the Risks and the Impacts due to Sound Emissions

Abstract

Long-term goals of this research are: 1. Improving the knowledge about how ocean dynamics affect the ecology and distribution of marine mammals in different areas; 2. Developing tools to predict marine mammal presence probability or density on the basis of selected environmental predictors; 3. Creating the knowledge-based decisional framework to choose among potential mitigation measures

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2010
Accession Number
ADA541692

Entities

People

  • Arianna Azzellino

Organizations

  • Polytechnic University of Milan

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Accuracy
  • Acoustic Detection
  • Agreements
  • Biology
  • Calibration
  • Data Acquisition
  • Data Sets
  • Decision Support Systems
  • Detection
  • Ecology
  • Habitats
  • Ligurian Sea
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • Mediterranean Sea
  • Observation
  • Odontocetes

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marine Mammal Biology
  • Systems Analysis and Design