Acoustic Float for Marine Mammal Monitoring

• 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

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.