Ground truth and target identification for fisheries acoustics

Fisheries Research

Volumn 47, Issue 2-3, 2000, Pages 173-191

  McClatchie, Sam ^a   Thorne, Richard E ^b   Grimes, Paul ^a   Hanchet, Stuart ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b Sonics Inc   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Fish target identification; Ground truth

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; FISHERY MODELING; FISHERY SURVEY; SPECIES DIVERSITY;

EID: 0034041086     PISSN: 01657836     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0165-7836(00)00168-5     Document Type: Article

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