| Projects Under Investment Area 1: Data to Support Risk Threshold Criteria |
| Research regarding potential impacts to marine species from Navy training and testing activities, primarily focused on potential impacts from sound (e.g., hearing studies, sound exposure, and behavioral response studies). |
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| Projects Under Investment Area 2: Data Processing and Analysis Tools |
| Develop methods to improve the ability to process large amounts of marine species data and provide cost effective solutions to enhance marine species monitoring capabilities (e.g., new detection and classification algorithms, Passive Acoustic Monitoring automated processing tools). |
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| Projects Under Investment Area 3: Monitoring Technology Demonstrations |
| Demonstrate technologies that offer to enhance marine species monitoring capabilities (e.g., new passive acoustic monitoring technologies and platforms such as gliders). |
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| Projects Under Investment Area 4: Standards and Metrics |
| Establish interagency and scientific community standards and metrics to evaluate marine species data to provide comparable results (e.g., standards for hearing studies, detector and classifier performance analysis standards). |
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| Projects Under Investment Area 5: Emergent Topics |
| This investment area is reserved for other priority topics that are associated with emerging technologies or capabilities. This includes research needs that arise out of the Navy's environmental compliance process, or topics that do not squarely fall within the preceding categories. |