Characterization of seafloor geo-acoustic properties from multibeam data

OCEANS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Canepa, Gaetano ^a   Berron, Cecile ^a  

^a NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTICS; ARGON; BOOLEAN FUNCTIONS; CLAY MINERALS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; CONFORMAL MAPPING; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SONAR; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

SEA FLOORS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 50949109291     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2006.306924     Document Type: Conference Paper

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