A statistical-spectral method for echo classification

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1081-1090

  Demer, David A ^a   Cutter, George R ^a   Renfree, Josiah S ^a   Butler, John L ^a  

^a SOUTHWEST FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustic; Classification; Dead zone; Demersal; EK60; Hardness; ME70; Multifrequency; Rockfish; Roughness; Seabed; Slope; Split beam; Statistical; Target

Indexed keywords

EID: 73649098540     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsp054     Document Type: Conference Paper

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