Detection of objects buried in the seafloor by a pattern-recognition approach

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 26, Issue 4, 2001, Pages 769-782

  Trucco, Andrea ^a,b  

^a IEEE   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic detection; Buried objects; Feature extraction; Pattern recognition; Sonar systems

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DETECTION; ECHO SIGNALS;

DETECTORS; REVERBERATION; SONAR; STATISTICS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

FEATURE EXTRACTION;

EID: 0035493126     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/48.972118     Document Type: Article

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