Remote sensing of sediment characteristics by optimized echo-envelope matching

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 114, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 2727-2743

  Sternlicht, Daniel D ^a,b   De Moustier, Christian P ^a,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA SAN DIEGO   (United States)

^b Dynamics Technology Inc   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; MONTE CARLO METHODS; OPTIMIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTS; SONAR;

PEAK ECHO AMPLITUDE;

ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTICS; CLAY; CONFERENCE PAPER; DENSITY; MONTE CARLO METHOD; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SPECTROSCOPY;

MODELS, THEORETICAL; OCEANS AND SEAS; ULTRASONICS;

EID: 0242524412     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1608019     Document Type: Conference Paper

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