Acoustic classification of seaweed and sediment with depth-compensated vertical echoes

OCEANS 2006

Volumn , Issue , 2006, Pages

  Preston, J M ^a  

^a Quester Tangent Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTICS; ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); CLUSTERING ALGORITHMS; COMPUTER NETWORKS; GENETIC ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; OFFSHORE OIL WELL PRODUCTION; SEDIMENTATION; SEDIMENTOLOGY; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURVEYS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; VEGETATION;

CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; METHODS: STATISTICAL; SEGMENTATION METHODS; SINGLE BEAMS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 50949112079     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/OCEANS.2006.306962     Document Type: Conference Paper

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