Discriminating between Posidonia oceanica meadows and sand substratum using multibeam sonar

ICES Journal of Marine Science

Volumn 68, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 12-19

  Di Maida, Germana ^a   Tomasello, Agostino ^a   Luzzu, Filippo ^a   Scannavino, Antonino ^a   Pirrotta, Maria ^a   Orestano, Carla ^a   Calvo, Sebastiano ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PALERMO   (Italy)

Author keywords

Bottom classification; Mapping; Multibeam sonar; Posidonia oceanica; Sand; Sicily

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CLASSIFICATION; HETEROGENEITY; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; MORPHOLOGY; MULTIBEAM SONAR; SAND; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SEAGRASS; SEASONAL VARIATION; SUBSTRATE; TYPOLOGY;

ITALY; SICILY;

POSIDONIA OCEANICA;

EID: 79951977705     PISSN: 10543139     EISSN: 10959289     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1093/icesjms/fsq130     Document Type: Article

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