Autonomous underwater vehicles: Future platforms for fisheries acoustics

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 60, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 684-691

  Fernandes, Paul G ^a   Stevenson, Pete ^b   Brierley, Andrew S ^c   Armstrong, Frederick ^a   Simmonds, E John ^a  

^a MARINE LABORATORY   (United Kingdom)

^b NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ST ANDREWS   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles; Echosounders; Power sources; Sonar

Indexed keywords

ECHO SOUNDER; FISHERY; MULTIBEAM SONAR; UNDERWATER VEHICLE;

EID: 0038575678     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1054-3139(03)00038-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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