Acquisition and processing of backscatter data for habitat mapping - Comparison of multibeam and sidescan systems

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1248-1257

  Le Bas, T P ^a   Huvenne, V A I ^a  

^a NATIONAL OCEANOGRAPHY CENTRE   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Multibeam; Processing; Resolution; Sidescan

Indexed keywords

ACQUISITION PERFORMANCE; BACKSCATTER; BACKSCATTER DATA; BIOLOGICAL COMMUNITY; COMPLETE SOLUTIONS; COST ANALYSIS; HABITAT MAPPING; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION BATHYMETRY; HIGHER RESOLUTION; MULTIBEAM; MULTIBEAM BATHYMETRY; OVER SAMPLING; PHYSICAL ENVIRONMENTS; RESOLUTION; SAMPLING RATES; SEA FLOOR; SHIP SPEED; SIDE SCAN SONAR; SIDESCAN; SIZE AND SHAPE; SURVEY SYSTEMS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; BACKSCATTERING; BATHYMETRY; COST ACCOUNTING; ECOLOGY; LITHOLOGY; MORPHOLOGY; OCEAN HABITATS; SONAR; SURVEYS; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

DATA PROCESSING;

EID: 67349103063     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.07.010     Document Type: Article

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