Laboratory evaluation of acoustic backscatter and LISST methods for measurements of suspended sediments

Sensors

Volumn 8, Issue 2, 2008, Pages 979-993

  Meral, Ramazan ^a  

^a KAHRAMANMARAS SUTCU IMAM UNIVERSITY   (Turkey)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Laser diffraction; LISST; Optical sensor; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ACOUSTIC WAVE SCATTERING; ACOUSTICS; BACKSCATTERING; OPTICAL SENSORS; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; LABORATORY EVALUATION; LASER DIFFRACTIONS; LISST; RADIUS MEASUREMENTS; SEDIMENT CONCENTRATION; SEDIMENT MEASUREMENTS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

EID: 40849093088     PISSN: 14243210     EISSN: 14248220     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/s8020979     Document Type: Article

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