Relationships between multibeam backscatter, sediment grain size and Posidonia oceanica seagrass distribution

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 30, Issue 18, 2010, Pages 1941-1950

  De Falco, Giovanni ^a   Tonielli, Renato ^a   Di Martino, Gabriella ^a   Innangi, Sara ^a   Simeone, Simone ^b   Michael Parnum, Iain ^c  

^a CNR   (Italy)

^b Fondazione IMC   (Italy)

^c CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angular response; Multibeam backscatter; Posidonia oceanica seagrass; Sediment grain size

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRY; CARBONATE; FACIES; FACTOR ANALYSIS; GRAIN SIZE; MULTIBEAM SONAR; SAMPLER; SEAFLOOR; SEAGRASS; SUBSTRATE;

MEDITERRANEAN SEA; SARDINIA CHANNEL;

POSIDONIA; POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 77958151625     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.09.006     Document Type: Article

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