Questions tagged [source-level]
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What amplitude do you use for playbacks?
When performing playback experiments with birds, is there a biologically relevant source level for song playbacks?
I have read that a standard value is 90 dB @ 1 m, however I could not find a good ...
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What type of propagation model should I use for a shallow water environment when the source is over 100 meters away?
I am trying to estimate source level on some ships that passed by my hydrophone at a distance greater than 100 meters. A few ships passed 60-80 meters away and I used an assumption of spherical ...
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Which method to report source/received level (p2p, rms, peak) of recorded sounds?
I've seen papers report source/received levels of animal vocalisation using three measures: rms, peak and peak-to-peak.
Even within a field there doesn't always seem to be a single convention, and ...
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