Technical and Scientific Support for Passive Acoustic Monitoring in the Research Cruise MED09

摘要

Main goal in our R&D program is the development of efficient and reliable tools for marine mammals' acoustic detection, classification, localization and tracking to support research, conservation and mitigation needs. The R&D program on marine mammals began in 1991 based on previous 10 years development of software and hardware for digital sound analysis and was then boosted by joining NURC (1998) in the development of the MMRMP program (formerly SOLMAR). The plan is to continue the improvement of available technologies (towed arrays, autonomous recorders) and to progressively develop semi-automatic tools to assist operators in the classification and tracking of received sources. The ultimate goal is to develop passive acoustics tools for evaluating the presence, distribution and density of marine mammals to support conservation strategies.