Mid-Frequency Sonar Interactions with Beaked Whales
2007
Foote, Kenneth G. | Feijoo, Gonzalo R. | Rye, Kent | Reidenberg, Joy | Hastings, Mardi
A National Oceanographic Partnership Program Award. The original document contains color images. Prepared in cooperation with Mount Sinai School of Medicine, Ctr. for Anatomy and Functional Morphology, New York, NY 10029-6574 and Penn State Univ., Applied Research Lab., Arlington, VA 22203-1708.
显示更多 [+] 显示较少 [-]The top-level goal of this project is to build an interactive online modeling and visualization system, called the Virtual Beaked Whale, to enable users to predict mid-frequency sonar-induced acoustic fields inside beaked whales and other marine mammals. Another high-level goal is to acquire new high-resolution morphometric and physical-property data on beaked whales for use in the model. It is hoped that the availability of such a system together with high-quality data will give researchers insight into the nature of sonar interactions with beaked whales, ultimately to introduce objectivity into a public discussion that has been hampered by lack of a scientific approach. It is hoped further that the tool will prove useful in evaluating alternate sonar transmit signals that retain the required information content but with substantially reduced physical effects in beaked whales.
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