Mean grain size mapping with single-beam echo sounders

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 120, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 2555-2566

  Van Walree, Paul A ^a   Ainslie, Michael A ^a   Simons, Dick G ^b  

^a TNO   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE; ALGORITHMS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; RAYLEIGH FADING; SEDIMENTS; WATER;

ECHO SOUNDERS; GRAIN SIZE MAPPING; MAPPING ALGORITHM; SEAFLOOR MASS DENSITY;

ECHO SUPPRESSION;

WATER;

ALGORITHM; ARTICLE; DENSITY; ENERGY; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GRAIN; IMPEDANCE; INTERFEROMETER; MEASUREMENT; PRIORITY JOURNAL; SEDIMENT; SOUND;

EID: 33750311238     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.2345907     Document Type: Article

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