Calibrating a 90-kHz multibeam sonar : Illustrating protocols

Ocean '04 - MTS/IEEE Techno-Ocean '04: Bridges across the Oceans - Conference Proceedings

Volumn 1, Issue , 2004, Pages 438-442

  Chu, D ^a   Foote, K G ^a   Hammar, T R ^a   Hufnagle Jr , L C ^b   Jech, J M ^c  

^a WOODS HOLE OCEANOGRAPHIC INSTITUTION   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^c NORTHEAST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; ACOUSTIC WAVES; CALIBRATION; ECOLOGY; EXTRAPOLATION; FUNCTIONS;

ECHO SOUNDERS; MULTIBEAM SONAR; PULSE DURATION (PD); TARGET STRENGTH (TS);

SONAR;

EID: 17644371608     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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