Detecting blue whales using fiber optic cables

Tracking whales with acoustic sensing

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In this episode, Martin Landrø describes how to track whale movements with undersea fiber optic cables.

In this episode, we cover:
•[00:00] Introduction.
•[01:01] Underwater acoustician Martin Landrø explains why it's important to track whale movement, and why it's difficult.
•[01:45] Landrø explains the methods used to detect whales previously.
•[03:01] He introduces distributed acoustic sensing.
•[04:14] Landrø tells the story of how they used distributed acoustic sensing to detect whale movement.
•[06:11] He talks about the results and what the method was able to detect.
•[07:30] He explores possibilities for using this method in the future.
•[08:38] He lists the caveats and limitations of the study.
•[09:25] Conclusion.

About Our Guest:

Martin Landrø
Professor
Norwegian University of Science and Technology

View related content here: https://www.pnas.org/doi/full/10.1073/pnas.2603077123

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