Statistical analysis of acoustic echoes from underwater meadows in the eutrophic Puck Bay (southern Baltic Sea)

Aquatic Living Resources

Volumn 16, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 215-221

  Tȩgowski, Jarosław ^a   Gorska, Natalia ^a   Klusek, Zygmunt ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

Author keywords

Echo signals; Parametric analysis; Underwater meadows

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ECHO SOUNDER; ECOSYSTEM RESILIENCE; MARINE POLLUTION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS;

(SOUTH); BALTIC SEA; POLAND; PUCK BAY;

EID: 0043197324     PISSN: 09907440     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0990-7440(03)00015-9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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