Acoustic Float for Marine Mammal Monitoring

• Main Authors: Jones, Christopher, Matsumoto, Haru, Mellinger, David K., Dziak, Robert P.
• Other Authors: WASHINGTON UNIV SEATTLE APPLIED PHYSICS LAB
• Format: Text
• Language: English
• Published: 2009
• Subjects: Biological Oceanography; Acoustic Detection and Detectors; Acoustics; *AQUATIC ANIMALS; *MONITORING; ACOUSTIC EQUIPMENT; FLOATS; MAMMALS; REAL TIME; MARINE MAMMALS; Marine Mammal Monitoring
• Online Access: http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA531188; http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA531188

Our goal is to develop an inexpensive solution to the problem of near real-time monitoring of marine mammals. We are developing an acoustic monitoring system, the QUEphone (Quasi-Eulerian phone), which is based on a commercial profiling float. By deploying a number of these inexpensive systems in advance of an operation, an area can be monitored for the presence of beaked whales and other species of concern.