Underwater sonar range sensing and 3D image formation

Control Engineering Practice

Volumn 4, Issue 3, 1996, Pages 393-400

  Auran, P G ^a   Silven, O ^b  

^a NORWEGIAN UNIVERSITY OF SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY   (Norway)

^b UNIVERSITY OF OULU   (Finland)

Author keywords

3D sonar data representation; Underwater computer vision

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; COMPUTER VISION; SONAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

SONAR DATA REPRESENTATION; SPATIAL GRID; UNDERWATER COMPUTER VISION;

UNDERWATER PROBING;

EID: 0030104366     PISSN: 09670661     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0967-0661(96)00017-2     Document Type: Article

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