Automated tracking of fish in trawls using the DIDSON (Dual frequency IDentification SONar)

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 65, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 636-644

  Handegard, Nils Olav ^a   Williams, Kresimir ^b  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b NOAA Alaska Fisheries Science Center   (United States)

Author keywords

DIDSON; Multiple target tracking; Trawl behaviour observation

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; DATA SET; FISH; SONAR; TESTING METHOD; TRACKING; TRAWLING;

EID: 44649191691     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsn029     Document Type: Article

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