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The Sonar of Dolphins

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  • © 1993

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  1. Whitlow W. L. Au

    1. Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kailua, USA

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Table of contents (12 chapters)

  1. Front Matter

    Pages i-xi
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  2. Introduction

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    Pages 1-21

  3. The Receiving System

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    Pages 22-31

  4. Characteristics of the Receiving System for Simple Signals

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    Pages 32-58

  5. Characteristics of the Receiving System for Complex Signals

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    Pages 59-76

  6. The Sonar Signal Transmission System

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    Pages 77-97

  7. Characteristics of the Transmission System

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    Pages 98-114

  8. Characteristics of Dolphin Sonar Signals

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    Pages 115-139

  9. Target Detection Capability of the Active Sonar System

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    Pages 140-176

  10. Biosonar Discrimination, Recognition, and Classification

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    Pages 177-215

  11. Signal Processing and Signal Processing Models

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    Pages 216-241

  12. Comparison Between the Sonar of Bats and Dolphins

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    Pages 242-265

  13. Road Map for Future Research

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    Pages 266-273

  14. Back Matter

    Pages 275-277
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About this book

Over the ages, humans have always been fascinated by dolphins. This fascination heightened in the 1950s when oceanariums and aquariums began to use dolphins as show performers to demonstrate their prowess and display how tractable and trainable they were, in part due to their extraordinary ability to echolocate.


This is the first book to present a comprehensive and organized treatise on dolphin biosonar. Such an effort is long overdue, since there is a paucity of books on this subject. The book introduces concepts ranging from physics to the creation of mathematical models as an aid to the quantification and understanding of biosonar capabilities. Topics further range from auditory pathways and processes, to the anatomy of the dolphin's head, to signal processing models, to a comparison of the sonar of bats and dolphins.


Authors and Affiliations

  • Hawaii Institute of Marine Biology, University of Hawaii, Kailua, USA

    Whitlow W. L. Au

Bibliographic Information

  • Book Title: The Sonar of Dolphins

  • Authors: Whitlow W. L. Au

  • DOI: https://doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4612-4356-4

  • Publisher: Springer New York, NY

  • eBook Packages: Springer Book Archive

  • Copyright Information: Springer-Verlag New York, Inc. 1993

  • Hardcover ISBN: 978-0-387-97835-2Published: 15 January 1993

  • Softcover ISBN: 978-1-4612-8745-2Published: 27 September 2011

  • eBook ISBN: 978-1-4612-4356-4Published: 06 December 2012

  • Edition Number: 1

  • Number of Pages: XII, 278

  • Topics: Neurosciences, Acoustics, Engineering, general, Animal Physiology

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