Angular dependence of statistical distributions for backscattered signals: Modelling and application to multibeam echosounder data

Oceans Conference Record (IEEE)

Volumn 2, Issue , 2003, Pages 897-903

  Le Chenadec, Gilles ^a   Boucher, Jean Marc ^b   Lurton, Xavier ^a   Augustin, Jean Marie ^a  

^a IFREMER   (France)

^b Ecole Natl Superieure TB   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; SAND; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SONAR; SPECKLE; STATISTICAL METHODS;

MULTIBEAM ECHOSOUNDER; SHALLOW WATER;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING;

EID: 1542716769     PISSN: 01977385     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/oceans.2003.178443     Document Type: Conference Paper

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