Backscattering from bioturbated sediments at very high frequency

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 27, Issue 3, 2002, Pages 388-402

  Pouliquen, Eric ^a   Lyons, Anthony P ^a,b  

^a NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^b PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic scattering; Bioturbation; High frequency acoustics; Seafloor scattering

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; DATA REDUCTION; INTERFACES (MATERIALS); PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SEDIMENTS; SONAR; TOMOGRAPHY;

VERTICAL DENSITY GRADIENTS;

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING;

EID: 0036661879     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2002.1040926     Document Type: Article

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