Characterization and classification of acoustically detected fish spatial distributions

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 65, Issue 7, 2008, Pages 1235-1247

  Burgos, Julian M ^a   Horne, John K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

Author keywords

Aggregations; Echotrace classification; Landscape indices; Spatial pattern; Walleye pollock

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; AGGREGATION BEHAVIOR; ALGORITHM; CLASSIFICATION; DEMOGRAPHIC SURVEY; DETECTION METHOD; DISPERSION; MEASUREMENT METHOD; PERCIFORM; SIZE DISTRIBUTION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; TRAWLING;

THERAGRA CHALCOGRAMMA;

EID: 52449125311     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsn087     Document Type: Article

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