Datasets of odontocete sounds annotated for developing automatic detection methods
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Authors
Mellinger, David K.
Subjects
Marine mammals
Toothed whales
Beaked whales
Toothed whales
Beaked whales
Advisors
Date of Issue
2010
Date
2010
Publisher
Monterey, California. Naval Postgraduate School
Language
Abstract
Environmental laws now require marine research and operations to be conducted so as to minimize impacts on marine mammals and mitigate any adverse impacts caused by that research/operation. Acoustic techniques have become the primary tool used for this task, and have produced vast quantities of data. Automatic call detection software has rapidly become the method of choice for analyzing these data. Most methods for detecting and classifying animal sounds in marine science have been developed for low frequency sounds of baleen whales. However, it is odontocetes (especially beaked whales) that have been most affected by marine operations, particularly of the U. S. Navy, and are of greatest public concern. Therefore, development of high-performance automatic detection methods for odontocetes is now imperative. This report chronicles the progress of this project to collect recordings of beaked whales and other marine mammal species; to annotate these sound files to make them useful to researchers working on automatic call detection and classification; to make the sound files publicly available in an archive on the Internet (MobySound); and to develop and test automatic detection algorithms and software, particularly software for autonomous ocean sensing systems such as gliders.
Type
Technical Report
Description
Series/Report No
Department
Oceanography
Organization
Office of the Chief of Naval Operations (U.S.)
Identifiers
NPS Report Number
NPS-OC-10-005CR
Sponsors
Funder
N00244-08-1-0029.
Format
i, 27 p.: col. ill.;28 cm.
Citation
Distribution Statement
Rights
This publication is a work of the U.S. Government as defined in Title 17, United States Code, Section 101. Copyright protection is not available for this work in the United States.