Seabottom characterization using multibeam echosounder angular backscatter: An application of the composite roughness theory

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 5 II, 2000, Pages 2419-2422

  Chakraborty, Bishwajit ^a   Schenke, Hans Werner ^b   Kodagali, Vijay ^a   Hagen, Rick ^c  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b ALFRED WEGENER INSTITUTE FOR POLAR AND MARINE RESEARCH   (Germany)

^c Seafloor Surveys International   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION METHODS; DATA REDUCTION; ELECTROMAGNETIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; RADAR IMAGING;

ANGULAR BACKSCATTER; COMPOSITE ROUGHNESS THEORY; HELMHOLTZ-KIRCHHOFF THEORY; MULTI-BEAM ECHOSOUNDER;

RADAR SYSTEMS;

EID: 0034269365     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/36.868896     Document Type: Article

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