TITLE:

THE IDENTIFICATION OF DOLPHIN SPECIES THROUGH LONG TERM PASSIVE ACOUSTIC MONITORING (No. 126)

DATE:

Friday, October 6th, 2006

TIME:

3:30 PM

LOCATION:

GMCS 214

SPEAKER:

Marie Roch, Department of Computer Science, San Diego State University

ABSTRACT:

Long term acoustic monitoring is an established technique for determining the long term abundance and seasonality of cetaceans. The use of acoustics complements traditional visual methods and long term remote acoustic sensors are now capable of gathering terabytes of data per instrument. Reliable methods are needed to automatically classify these large datasets which would be cost prohibitive for human analysis. In this talk, we will discuss signal processing and classification methods that are being developed jointly with John Hildebrand of The Scripps Institution of Oceanography to determine the species of delphinids in the Southern California Bight and the Gulf of Mexico based upon their vocalizations.

HOST:

Jose Castillo

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