Textural analyses of multibeam sonar imagery from Stanton Banks, Northern Ireland continental shelf

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1288-1297

  Blondel, Ph ^a   Gomez Sichi O ^a  

^a University of Bath   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Acoustic textures; Multibeam imagery; Seafloor classification

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC TECHNIQUES; ANGULAR VARIATION; BATHYMETRIC DATA; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; K-MEANS; MULTI-BEAM; MULTIBEAM IMAGERY; MULTIBEAM SONAR; NORTHERN IRELAND; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; ROCKY OUTCROPS; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR CLASSIFICATION; SIDESCAN SONAR IMAGERY; TEXTURAL ANALYSIS; UNSUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION; VISUAL OBSERVATIONS;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; OCEAN HABITATS; SONAR; TEXTURES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

IMAGE CLASSIFICATION;

EID: 67349130051     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.07.015     Document Type: Article

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