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  Acoustic Monitoring Program: Spectrogram comparisons
 

Volcanic Seismicity Recorded on Deep Ocean Hydrophones

  
 
Note time and frequency scales are not identical, spectrograms displayed together for a general comparison of images. Click on spectrogram for full-size, scaled image. Click on image "name" for a complete description of the sound.

 

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  tremor spectrogram CoAxial spectrogram EPR spectrogram .
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Marine Mammals

 
 

Note time and frequency scales are not identical, spectrograms displayed together for a general comparison of images.

Click on image "name" for a complete description of the sound.

Click on spectrogram for full-size, scaled image.

 

 

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  NE Pacific blue whale spectrogram Western Pacific blue whale spectrogram S Pacific blue whale spectrogram .
 
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Man-made sounds

 
 
Note time and frequency scales are not identical, spectrograms displayed together for a general comparison of images. Click on spectrogram for full-size, scaled image. Click on image "name" for a complete description of the sound.

 

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  Brown spectrogram airgun spectrogram ship at phone spectrogram .
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  Unidentified Sounds  
 

Note time and frequency scales are not identical, spectrograms displayed together for a general comparison of images. Click on spectrogram for full-size, scaled image. Click on image "name" for a complete description of the sound.

View CNN.com story, Tuning in to a deep sea monster. (6/13/02)
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