DECAF - PMFR Minke Whales - Multiple Sensor - Manual Boing Detections

Original provider:
Density Estimation of Cetaceans from passive Acoustic Fixed sensors (DECAF)

Abstract:
This data set consists of manually detected boings from multiple hydrophones off the northwest of Kauai, Hawaii. Boings were detected utilizing visual displays of signal spectrograms and time series along with aural monitoring. The boings have a distinctive sound character with major energy in the 1.4kHz area. These manual detections provided information necessary in order to assess performance of the automated boing detector and to help understand how to better automatically detect, associate and localize boing sound source locations. Manual validation of automatic processes is much more efficient (in time and dollars) than the total manual effort such as performed in this data set and the manual localization data set # 675.

This analysis was conducted by James Yosco (Science Applications International Corporation. Times are in GMT. Hydrophone locations are only approximate.

The detailed results of the analysis are available at the DECAF web site shown in the supplemental information section.