Fine-scale measurements of sediment roughness and subbottom variability

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 29, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 929-939

  Tang, Dajun ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic scattering; Roughness; Sea floor; Sediment density

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; COMPUTER SIMULATION; ERROR ANALYSIS; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; PROBES; REMOTE SENSING; SEAWATER; SEDIMENTS; SENSORS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

SEA FLOOR; SEDIMENT CONDUCTIVITY; SEDIMENT DENSITY; SEDIMENT ROUGHNESS;

OCEANOGRAPHY;

EID: 14744286719     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2004.834176     Document Type: Article

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