Mapping seabed assemblages using comparative top-down and bottom-up classification approaches

Canadian Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences

Volumn 63, Issue 7, 2006, Pages 1536-1548

  Eastwood, Paul D ^a   Souissi, Sami ^b   Rogers, Stuart I ^a   Coggan, Roger A ^a   Brown, Craig J ^c  

^a CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENT   (United Kingdom)

^b Laboratoire d Océanologie et de Géosciences   (France)

^c UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMAGERY; BAYESIAN ANALYSIS; BENTHIC INFAUNA; BOTTOM-UP APPROACH; COMPARATIVE STUDY; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; TOP-DOWN APPROACH;

ENGLAND; EURASIA; EUROPE; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 33748577195     PISSN: 0706652X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1139/F06-058     Document Type: Article

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