Mono-hydrophone localization of baleen whales: a study of propagation using a spectral element method applied in Northern Chile

Autor: Julie Patris, Hervé Glotin, Macarena Santos, Susannah J. Buchan, Dimitri Komatitsch, Mark Asch, Maritza Sepúlveda, Franck Malige
Přispěvatelé: DYNamiques de l’Information (DYNI), Laboratoire d'Informatique et Systèmes (LIS), Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-Université de Toulon (UTLN)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Ondes et Imagerie (O&I), Laboratoire de Mécanique et d'Acoustique [Marseille] (LMA ), Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM), Universidad de Concepción [Chile], Laboratoire Amiénois de Mathématique Fondamentale et Appliquée (LAMFA), Université de Picardie Jules Verne (UPJV)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), PNRIA, Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS)-Aix Marseille Université (AMU)-École Centrale de Marseille (ECM)-Centre National de la Recherche Scientifique (CNRS), Universidad de Concepción - University of Concepcion [Chile]
Rok vydání: 2019
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Zdroj: OCEANS 2019-Marseille
Oceans 2019
Oceans 2019, Jun 2019, Marseille, France. ⟨10.1109/OCEANSE.2019.8867333⟩
DOI: 10.1109/oceanse.2019.8867333
Popis: International audience; In the context of passive acoustic monitoring of large whales, we propose a new method for localizing blue whales (Balaenoptera musculus) from the acoustic recordings of only one sensor. We use a precise modelling of the sound propagation thanks to SPECFEM, a spectral element code for solving wave propagation equations. Based on field measurements in Northern Chile, we ran a simulation on a large supercomputer. We also exploited a recording device, Bombyx II, for one and a half months, with visual monitoring of the zone by a group of experts. We find that the method applied to the south east Pacific song of blue whales gives theoretical results of about 50% success in position recovery. Since we have redundancy in our data, we were able to locate the whale with a precision of 500 m over a box of 10 km by 5 km in the case when we have both visual detection and a strong acoustic signal. More tests should be performed before validating this method, but these first results are encouraging.
Databáze: OpenAIRE