Improving the Navy's Passive Underwater Acoustic Monitoring of Marine Mammal Populations

Abstract

The long-term goals of this research effort are to improve the Navy s passive underwater acoustic monitoring of marine mammal populations. A major focus in this project is on further enhancing the ability to estimate environmentally-calibrated calling density (calls per unit area per unit time) obtained from raw detections of calls in underwater acoustic recordings. The efforts in this program also will support the Ph.D. research of a graduate student in marine bioacoustics and ocean acoustics at the Scripps Institution of Oceanography.

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Document Details

Document Type
Technical Report
Publication Date
Sep 30, 2014
Accession Number
ADA618048

Entities

People

  • Gerald Lynden D'Spain

Organizations

  • Scripps Institution of Oceanography

Tags

Communities of Interest

  • Ground and Sea Platforms
  • Sensors
  • Weapons Technologies

DTIC Thesaurus Topics

  • Acoustics
  • Animals
  • Correlation Analysis
  • Databases
  • Detection
  • Detectors
  • False Alarms
  • Frequency
  • Law
  • Mammals
  • Marine Mammals
  • Monitoring
  • Seabed
  • Statistical Analysis
  • Unexploded Ammunition
  • Warning Systems
  • Whales

Fields of Study

  • Environmental science

Readers

  • Marine Mammal Biology
  • STEM Education