The last decade of bioacoustics at the Office of Naval Research

Abstract

The goal of the ONR Marine Mammals and Biology (MMB) program is to enable Navy to and meet operational training and testing objectives in an environmentally responsible and legal manner. The ONR Marine Mammals and Biology program invests in Monitoring and Detection topic with the goal is to improve marine mammal monitoring capabilities over current methods. Develop new and existing technology such as passive acoustics, IR, and others. Recent research efforts on passive acoustics include the development and testing of new autonomous hardware platforms and signal processing algorithms for detection, classification, and localization of marine mammals. Ultimately, the ONR goal is to adapt those algorithms for use on a variety of fixed, towed, floating, and profiling platforms. For example, over the last several years ONR has adapted the use of autonomous ocean gliders for marine mammal monitoring to create the desired capability of persistent, autonomous, passive acoustic monitoring of an area for marine mamm...