Textural analyses of sidescan sonar imagery from two mound provinces in the Porcupine Seabight

Marine Geology

Volumn 189, Issue 3-4, 2002, Pages 323-341

  Huvenne, V A I ^c   Blondel, Ph ^b   Henriet, J P ^a  

^a Renard Centre of Marine Geology   (Belgium)

^b University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

^c NONE

Author keywords

Cold water corals; Grey level co occurrence matrices; Image analysis; Mounds; Porcupine Seabight; Sidescan sonar imagery

Indexed keywords

CORALS;

IMAGE ANALYSIS; OCEANOGRAPHY; SEDIMENTS;

SONAR;

BIOGENIC STRUCTURE; COLD WATER; CORAL REEF; ROUGHNESS; SEAFLOOR; SIDESCAN SONAR;

ATLANTIC OCEAN;

EID: 0037201911     PISSN: 00253227     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0025-3227(02)00420-6     Document Type: Article

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