A flexible method to simulate 3-D underwater sub-bottom images

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

Volumn 4, Issue , 2004, Pages 2346-2353

  Palmese, Maria ^a   Trucco, Andrea ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER SIMULATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RANDOM PROCESSES; SEDIMENTS; SIMULATORS; SONAR; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RANDOM DISTRIBUTION; RAYLEIGH REFLECTION; SCATTERERS; THREE-DIMENSIONAL (3D) IMAGES;

UNDERWATER IMAGING;

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DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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