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

该项目将展示利用被动海声波导遥感（POAWRS）系统提供广域海洋哺乳动物（MM）监测、定位和近实时物种分类的能力。被动海洋声波导遥感（POAWRS）系统将结合由OCE MRI资助的轻型细线声学接收器（LTAR）阵列系统，以及集成处理和分析软件包，该软件包提供检测、定位、跟踪、特征提取和物种分类，并将其绘制到该地区的地理地图上，近乎实时。该系统有潜力成为野外试验中使用的有用的操作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.