Automated acoustic seabed classification of multibeam images of Stanton Banks

Applied Acoustics

Volumn 70, Issue 10, 2009, Pages 1277-1287

  Preston, Jon ^a  

^a Quester Tangent Corporation   (Canada)

Author keywords

Acoustic classification; Clustering; Seabed classification; Sonar image compensation

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; AUTOMATED SEGMENTATION; BATHYMETRIC DATA; BAYESIAN; CLASSIFICATION ,; CLUSTERING; CLUSTERING METHODS; GRAZING ANGLES; GROUND TRUTH; IMAGE SPACE; IRELAND; MULTI-BEAM; OCEAN FLOOR; SEABED CLASSIFICATION; SIDESCAN IMAGES; SONAR IMAGE COMPENSATION; SURVEY GEOMETRY; SYSTEMATIC CHANGES; UNSUPERVISED SEGMENTATION;

ACOUSTIC ARRAYS; AUTOMATION; HYDROGRAPHIC SURVEYS; OCEAN ENGINEERING; OCEANOGRAPHY; PHOTOGRAPHY; SONAR; TEXTURES; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS;

SIMULATED ANNEALING;

EID: 67349226795     PISSN: 0003682X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.apacoust.2008.07.011     Document Type: Article

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