Automated acoustic classification of sidescan images

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2060-2065

  Preston, J M ^a   Christney, A C ^a   Collins, W T ^a   Bloomer, S ^b  

^a Quester Tangent Corporation   (Canada)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; DEGRADATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; PROGRAM INTERPRETERS; REMOTE SENSING; SCANNING; SEDIMENTS; SONAR; TEXTURES;

AUTOMATED ACOUSTIC CLASSIFICATIONS; IMAGE COMPENSATION; SIDESCAN IMAGES; SOLAR IMAGES;

PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 19544366221     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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