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🐋 Orca Echolocation: Click Trains, the Sonar Equation and Seawater Sound Speed

Send biosonar clicks from an orca towards a salmon school and follow the click, echo and range estimate: Mackenzie sound speed, spherical spreading plus Thorp absorption, the active sonar equation and the detection range, with a temperature range-error experiment.

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Send biosonar clicks from an orca towards a salmon school and follow the click, echo and range estimate: Mackenzie sound speed, spherical spreading plus Thorp absorption, the active sonar equation and the detection range, with a temperature range-error experiment.

EcholocationOrcaSonar EquationUnderwater AcousticsThree.jsBlender

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