Acoustic seabed segmentation from direct statistical clustering of entire multibeam sonar backscatter curves

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 138-148

  Hamilton, L J ^a   Parnum, I ^b  

^a DEFENCE SCIENCE AND TECHNOLOGY ORGANISATION   (Australia)

^b CURTIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Acoustic backscatter data; Multibeam sonar; Multivariate analysis; Seafloor classification; Statistical clustering

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC METHOD; ACOUSTIC PROPERTY; ARTIFACT; BACKSCATTER; DATA SET; MULTIBEAM SONAR; RHODOLITH; SAMPLER; SAND WAVE; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SEGMENTATION; STATISTICAL ANALYSIS; SWATH BATHYMETRY;

AUSTRALIA; ESPERANCE BAY; KEPPEL BAY; QUEENSLAND; WESTERN AUSTRALIA;

EID: 78651440093     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.12.002     Document Type: Article

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