Processing and analysis of underwater acoustic images generated by mechanically scanned sonar systems

IEEE Transactions on Instrumentation and Measurement

Volumn 58, Issue 7, 2009, Pages 2061-2071

  Trucco, Andrea ^a   Garofalo, Matteo ^b   Repetto, Stefania ^a   Vernazza, Gianni ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b ISTITUTO ITALIANO DI TECNOLOGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Acoustic imaging; Contrast enhancement; Fanshaped beam sonar system; Image analysis; Image processing; Interpolation; Mechanically scanned sonar system; Object detection; Pencil beam sonar system; Speckle reduction; Underwater imaging

Indexed keywords

CONTRAST ENHANCEMENT; FANSHAPED-BEAM SONAR SYSTEM; MECHANICALLY SCANNED SONAR SYSTEM; OBJECT DETECTION; PENCIL-BEAM SONAR SYSTEM; SPECKLE REDUCTION;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; COMPUTER ARCHITECTURE; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE ENHANCEMENT; IMAGING SYSTEMS; INTERPOLATION; OBJECT RECOGNITION; REAL TIME CONTROL; SET THEORY; SPECKLE; UNDERWATER ACOUSTICS; UNDERWATER IMAGING;

SONAR;

EID: 67649621651     PISSN: 00189456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TIM.2009.2015520     Document Type: Conference Paper

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