Quantitative characterisation of seafloor substrate and bedforms using advanced processing of multibeam backscatter-Application to Cook Strait, New Zealand

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 2 SUPPL., 2011, Pages

  Lamarche, Geoffroy ^a   Lurton, Xavier ^b   Verdier, Anne Laure ^a   Augustin, Jean Marie ^b  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF WATER AND ATMOSPHERIC RESEARCH   (New Zealand)

^b IFREMER   (France)

Author keywords

Backscatter; Habitat mapping; Multibeam echo sounder; Sediment waves

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; BEDFORM; CALIBRATION; DATA SET; ECHO SOUNDER; FILTER; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEAFLOOR; SEISMIC DATA; SOFTWARE; SUBSTRATE; SURVEY; TOPOGRAPHY; WATER COLUMN;

COOK STRAIT; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 79955480061     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2010.06.001     Document Type: Article

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