Acoustic Float for Marine Mammal Monitoring

Our goal is to develop an inexpensive acoustic profiler technology, QUEphone (Quasi-Eulerian phone), which allows accurate detection of the beaked whales and reporting in a short time frame by monitoring for the vocalizations of the target species. By converting a commercially available profiler flo...

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Main Authors: Matsumoto, Haru, Mellinger, David K, Dziak, Robert P
Other Authors: OREGON STATE UNIV NEWPORT OR COOPERATIVE INST FOR MARINE RESOURCES STUDIES
Format: Text
Language:English
Published: 2011
Subjects:
Biology
Acoustic Detection and Detectors
*AQUATIC ANIMALS
*UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS
ACOUSTIC SURVEILLANCE
MONITORING
WHALES
Marine Mammal Monitoring
Online Access:http://www.dtic.mil/docs/citations/ADA598274
http://oai.dtic.mil/oai/oai?&verb=getRecord&metadataPrefix=html&identifier=ADA598274
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Summary:Our goal is to develop an inexpensive acoustic profiler technology, QUEphone (Quasi-Eulerian phone), which allows accurate detection of the beaked whales and reporting in a short time frame by monitoring for the vocalizations of the target species. By converting a commercially available profiler float to a mobile platform and installing a sophisticated detection algorithm on a high-power DSP, we will test the QUEphones in appropriate beaked whale habitat, compare beaked whale detection results against the M3R (Marine Mammal Monitoring Navy Ranges), the Navy s well-established acoustic surveillance system, and demonstrate the correct operation of the system as a tool for the Navy.

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