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Article Dans Une Revue Journal of the Acoustical Society of America Année : 2014

Range estimation of bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) calls in the Arctic using a single hydrophone.

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Bowhead whales generate low-frequency calls in shallow-water Arctic environments, whose dispersive propagation characteristics are well modeled by normal mode theory. As each mode propagates with a different group speed, a call's range can be inferred by the relative time-frequency dispersion of the modal arrivals. Traditionally, at close ranges modal arrivals are separated using synchronized hydrophone arrays. Here a nonlinear signal processing method called "warping" is used to filter the modes on just a single hydrophone. The filtering works even at relatively short source ranges, where distinct modal arrivals are not separable in a conventional spectrogram. However, this warping technique is limited to signals with monotonically increasing or decreasing frequency modulations, a relatively common situation for bowhead calls. Once modal arrivals have been separated, the source range can be estimated using conventional modal dispersion techniques, with the original source signal structure being recovered as a by-product. Twelve bowhead whale vocalizations recorded near Kaktovik (Alaska) in 2010, with signal-to-noise ratios between 6 and 23 dB, are analyzed, and the resulting single-receiver range estimates are consistent with those obtained independently via triangulation from widely-distributed vector sensor arrays. Geoacoustic inversions for each call are necessary in order to obtain the correct ranges.
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hal-01089671 , version 1 (02-12-2014)

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Julien Bonnel, Aaron M. Thode, Susanna B. Blackwell, Katherine Kim, A. Michael Macrander. Range estimation of bowhead whale (Balaena mysticetus) calls in the Arctic using a single hydrophone.. Journal of the Acoustical Society of America, 2014, 136, pp.145-155. ⟨10.1121/1.4883358⟩. ⟨hal-01089671⟩
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