Automated segmentation of seafloor bathymetry from multibeam echosounder data using local fourier histogram texture features

Journal of Experimental Marine Biology and Ecology

Volumn 285-286, Issue , 2003, Pages 355-370

  Cutter Jr , G R ^a   Rzhanov, Y ^a   Mayer, L A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated segmentation; Local Fourier histogram; Seafloor bathymetry

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; BENTHIC INFAUNA; ECHO SOUNDER; HABITAT; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 0037433217     PISSN: 00220981     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0022-0981(02)00537-3     Document Type: Conference Paper

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