Calibrating multibeam, wideband sonar with reference targets

OCEANS 2007 - Europe

Volumn , Issue , 2007, Pages

  Ona, Egil ^a   Andersen, Lars N ^b   Knudsen, Hans Petter ^c   Berg, Sverre ^b  

^a Institute of Marins Research   (Norway)

^b Simrad   (Norway)

^c INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

Calibration; Marine animals; Sonar

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTERING; COMPUTATION THEORY; NATURAL FREQUENCIES; TUNGSTEN CARBIDE;

BIOLOGICAL TARGETS; FREQUENCY BAND; SPLIT BEAM SYSTEMS;

SONAR;

EID: 36348960625     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/oceanse.2007.4302473     Document Type: Conference Paper

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