Remote sensing of sediment density and velocity gradients in the transition layer

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 118, Issue 1, 2005, Pages 163-177

  Holland, Charles W ^a   Dettmer, Jan ^b   Dosso, Stan E ^b  

^a PENNSYLVANIA STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF VICTORIA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DENSITY MEASUREMENT (SPECIFIC GRAVITY); DEPOSITION; EROSION; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; SEDIMENTS; UNCERTAIN SYSTEMS; VELOCITY MEASUREMENT;

BAYESIAN INVERSION APPROACH; SEDIMENT DENSITY; TRANSITION LAYER; VELOCITY GRADIENTS; WATER SEDIMENT INTERFACE;

REMOTE SENSING;

ACOUSTICS; ANALYTICAL ERROR; ARTICLE; BAYES THEOREM; BULK DENSITY; COMPRESSIONAL VELOCITY; DENSITY; GEOACOUSTICS; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; PHASE TRANSITION; PRIORITY JOURNAL; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENT; VELOCITY; VELOCITY GRADIENT; WATER SEDIMENT INTERFACE;

EID: 22144462474     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.1925988     Document Type: Article

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