Angular range analysis of acoustic themes from Stanton Banks Ireland: A link between visual interpretation and multibeam echosounder angular signatures

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1298-1304

  Fonseca, Luciano ^a   Brown, Craig ^b   Calder, Brian ^a   Mayer, Larry ^a   Rzhanov, Yuri ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF ULSTER   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic classification; Backscatter; Benthic habitat; Multibeam sonar; Seabed properties

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CLASSIFICATION; BACKSCATTER; BENTHIC HABITAT; MULTIBEAM SONAR; SEABED PROPERTIES;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ECOLOGY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; OCEAN HABITATS; PHOTOGRAPHY; SONAR; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

ACOUSTIC IMPEDANCE;

EID: 67349100156     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.09.008     Document Type: Article

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