Citation

Gervaise C, Aulanier F, Simard Y, Roy N. J. Acoust. Soc. Am. 2015; 137(6): EL429.

Affiliation

Maurice-Lamontagne Institute, Fisheries and Oceans Canada, 850 Route de la Mer, Mont-Joli, Quebec G5H-3Z4, Canadaflorian.aulanier@uqar.ca, yvan_simard@dfo-mpo.gc.ca, nathalie.roy@dfo-mpo.gc.ca.

Copyright

(Copyright © 2015, American Institute of Physics)

DOI

10.1121/1.4921673

PMID

26093451

Abstract

Mapping vessel noise is emerging as one method of identifying areas where sound exposure due to shipping noise could have negative impacts on aquatic ecosystems. The probability distribution function (pdf) of sound exposure levels (SEL) is an important metric for identifying areas of concern. In this paper a probabilistic shipping SEL modeling method is described to obtain the pdf of SEL using the sonar equation and statistical relations linking the pdfs of ship traffic density, source levels, and transmission losses to their products and sums.

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