Patent ID: 9705607
Date: 2017-07-11
CPC Classifications: A01K,H04B

Claim:
1. A system to determine chronic and acute impacts on communication space, comprising: a distributed network of sensors forming a grid, each sensor recording acoustic data for a species of interest in an area of interest defined by the grid, wherein each sensor obtains acoustic data at a predetermined sample rate and a bit depth; a database including vessel data comprising Global Positioning System (“GPS”) coordinates for a vessel throughout a range from a first point to a second point within the grid and a speed of the vessel; one or more buoys providing wind speed data; a processor in communication with and associated with each sensor of the distributed network of sensors, the database, and the one or more buoys, the processor analyzing the acoustic data, the vessel data, and the wind speed data, the analysis comprising the step of modeling noise layers; a display to visualize the noise layers and measure an acoustic habitat for the species of interest in the area of interest to assess a potential impact of anthropogenic noise.