Analysis and prediction of faunal distributions from video and multi-beam sonar data using Markov models

Environmetrics

Volumn 20, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 541-560

  Foster, Scott D ^a   Bravington, Mark V ^a   Williams, Alan ^a   Althaus, Franziska ^a   Laslett, Geoff M ^a   Kloser, Rudy J ^a  

^a CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Fauna prediction; Non stationary data; Reversible Markov chain; Swath data; Video transect data

Indexed keywords

MARINE ENVIRONMENT; MARKOV CHAIN; SONAR; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION;

EID: 68049095119     PISSN: 11804009     EISSN: 1099095X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/env.952     Document Type: Article

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