Development of an interim passive ocean acoustic waveguide remote sensing system for instantaneous continental-shelf scale marine mammal monitoring, localization and species classi

该项目将展示使用被动海洋声波导遥感系统近乎实时地提供广域海洋哺乳动物监测、定位和物种分类的能力。无源海洋声波波导遥感(POAWRS)系统将结合由OCE MRI资金资助的轻型薄线声波接收器(LTAR)阵列系统，以及一个综合处理和分析软件包，该软件包提供近乎实时地绘制在该地区地理地图上的MMS的检测、定位、跟踪、特征提取和物种分类。该系统有可能成为现场实验中使用的实用MM监测系统。

This project will provide a demonstration of the capability to provide wide-area marine mammal (MM) monitoring, localization and species classification in near real time using the passive ocean acoustic waveguide remote sensing (POAWRS) system. The passive ocean acoustic waveguide remote sensing (POAWRS) system will combine the Lightweight Thinline Acoustic Receiver (LTAR) array system, funded with OCE MRI funding, and an integrated processing and analysis software package that provides detection, localization, tracking, feature extraction and species classification of MMs charted onto a geographic map of the region in near real time. This system has the potential to be a useful operational MM monitoring system used during field experiments.