Calibration methods for two scientific multibeam systems

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2009, Pages 1326-1334

  Ona, Egil ^a   Mazauric, Valerie ^b   Andersen, Lars Nonboe ^c  

^a INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

^b IFREMER   (France)

^c Simrad   (Norway)

Author keywords

Acoustic surveys; Calibration; Echosounder; ME70; MS70; Multibeam; Sonar

Indexed keywords

EID: 77952172048     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsp125     Document Type: Conference Paper

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