Enhanced acoustic backscatter due to high abundance of sand dollars, dendraster excentricus

Marine Georesources and Geotechnology

Volumn 19, Issue 2, 2001, Pages 135-145

  Fenstermacher, Lori E ^a   Crawford, Gregory B ^a   Borgeld, Jeffry C ^a   Britt, Tristan ^a   George, Douglas A ^a   Klein, Meredith A ^a   Driscoll, Neal W ^b   Mayer, Larry A ^c  

^a HUMBOLDT STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Backscatter; Bioacoustics; Mapping; Nearshore environments; Sand dollars; Side scan sonar

Indexed keywords

EID: 0035300466     PISSN: 1064119X     EISSN: 15210618     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10641190109353808     Document Type: Article

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