Underwater acoustic localization and tracking of Pacific walruses in the northeastern Chukchi Sea

• Main Author: Rideout, Brendan Pearce
• Other Authors: Dosso, Stanley Edward
• Format: Thesis
• Language: English
• Published: 2012
• Subjects: passive acoustic localization; Pacific walrus; Chukchi Sea; Bayesian; ABIC; localization; uncertainty analysis; ray tracing; Hanna Shoal; Pacific; Chukchi; Alaska; walrus*
• Online Access: http://hdl.handle.net/1828/3790

This thesis develops and demonstrates an approach for estimating the three-dimensional (3D) location of a vocalizing underwater marine mammal using acoustic arrival time measurements at three spatially separated receivers while providing rigorous location uncertainties. To properly account for uncer...