Algorithm for Automatic Acoustic Detection of Ship and Marine Mammals

Responding to the increasing number, size, and speed of commercial ships, the underwater noise is also increasing which could result in a possible adverse impact on marine lives. For clarifying this possible concern, a method for measurement of ship noise and marine lives is required, especially for marine mammals which are sensitive for the frequency range of ship noise. In order to enable to observe marine mammal's behavior and the ship noise simultaneously, this study developed an algorithm to detect ship noise, added to a conventional dolphin detection algorithm. The ship noise is obtained by eliminating some nature sounds and the dolphin's sonar sound. Both dolphin's sounds and ship noises can be separated efficiently so that the noise can be identified using sample data. Further improvement of monitoring system and algorithm are future tasks.