Acoustic seafloor discrimination with echo shape parameters: A comparison with the ground truth

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 25, Issue 18, 2005, Pages 2273-2293

  Van Walree, Paul A ^a   Tȩgowski, Jaroslaw ^b   Laban, Cees ^a   Simons, Dick G ^a,c  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOLOGY   (Poland)

^c DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Echosounder; North Sea; Seafloor characterization; Shape parameters

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC SURVEY; ECHO SOUNDER; SEAFLOOR MAPPING;

ATLANTIC OCEAN; NORTH SEA;

EID: 27744435322     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2005.09.002     Document Type: Article

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