Auditory Masking Patterns in Bottlenose Dolphins from Anthropogenic and Natural Sound Sources

Abstract

The long-term goals of this project are to better understand and predict auditory masking in odontocetes with realistic, environmental noise types. Current predictions based on Gaussian noise will be improved upon.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2011
Accession Number
ADA598414

Entities

People

  • Brian K. Branstetter

Organizations

  • National Marine Mammal Foundation

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Energy and Power Technologies
  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Materials and Manufacturing Processes

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Amplitude Modulation
  • Bandwidth
  • Detection
  • Discrimination
  • Frequency
  • Frequency Modulation
  • Gaussian Noise
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • Modulation
  • Noise
  • Odontocetes
  • Power Spectra
  • Recognition
  • Signal Detection
  • Signal Processing
  • Sonar

Readers

  • Acoustics.
  • Computational Modeling and Simulation
  • Marine Mammal Biology