Abstract
During the 1997 Marine Mammal Vocalization (MMV) experiment conducted by the Scripps Marine Physical Laboratory last September, J15 source tows were conducted in a highly range-dependent environment northwest of San Nicolas Island in the Southern California Bight region. The tows consisted of eight radial tracks ranging from 1 to 6 nautical miles from the research platform FLIP, along all cardinal directions. Among the signals broadcast were low-frequency combs (18–110 Hz), middle-frequency combs (50–200 Hz), FM downsweeps (900 to 50 Hz over 9 s), and an Eastern Pacific type A blue whale recorded during the 1996 MMV experiment. Multiple CTD casts were also taken, and a bathymetric database was obtained from the National Oceanographic Service. All these data are used to calibrate matched-field processing environmental models, which are subsequently applied to find the location in 3D space of a series of blue whale vocalizations. [Work sponsored by ONR.]
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