Detecting the nonlinearity of fish acoustic signals

Abstract

This paper discusses the nonlinearity of fish acoustic signals by using the surrogate data method. We compare the difference of three test statistics—time-irreversibility Trev, correlation dimension D2 and auto mutual information function I between the original data and the surrogate data. We come to the conclusion that there exists nonlinearity in the fish acoustic signals and there exist deterministic nonlinear components; therefore nonlinear dynamic theory can be used to analyze fish acoustic signals.