The use of fractal properties of echo signals for acoustical classification of bottom sediments

Acustica

Volumn 86, Issue 2, 2000, Pages 276-282

  Tȩgowski, Jarosław ^a   ŁUbniewski, Zbigniew ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^b GDANSK UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ALGORITHMS; FRACTALS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SEDIMENTS; TIME DOMAIN ANALYSIS;

MARINE BOTTOM SEDIMENTS;

UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

EID: 0033737838     PISSN: 00017884     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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