A post-processing technique to estimate the signal-to-noise ratio and remove echosounder background noise

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 64, Issue 6, 2007, Pages 1282-1291

  De Robertis, Alex ^a   Higginbottom, Ian ^b  

^a ALASKA FISHERIES SCIENCE CENTER   (United States)

^b SonarData Pty Ltd   (Australia)

Author keywords

Background noise; Echo integration; Echosounder; Signal to noise ratio

Indexed keywords

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EID: 77953948129     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsm112     Document Type: Article

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