Accuracy and precision of salmon length estimates taken from DIDSON sonar images

Transactions of the American Fisheries Society

Volumn 139, Issue 5, 2010, Pages 1306-1314

  Burwen, Debby L ^a   Fleischman, Steven J ^a   Miller, James D ^a  

^a ALASKA DEPARTMENT OF FISH AND GAME   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; BODY SIZE; EXPERIMENTAL STUDY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; PRECISION; RESOLUTION; SALMONID; SONAR;

ALASKA; UNITED STATES;

ONCORHYNCHUS NERKA; ONCORHYNCHUS TSHAWYTSCHA;

EID: 77957914147     PISSN: 00028487     EISSN: 15488659     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1577/T09-173.1     Document Type: Article

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