Principal component analysis of single-beam echo-sounder signal features for seafloor classification

IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering

Volumn 36, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 259-272

  Amiri Simkooei, Ali R ^a,b   Snellen, Mirjam ^b   Simons, Dick G ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ISFAHAN   (Iran)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Echo shape parameters; principal component analysis (PCA); single beam echo sounder (SBES)

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REMOTE SENSING; ACOUSTICAL DATA; BASIC CONCEPTS; CLASS NUMBERS; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; CLUSTERING APPROACH; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; ECHO SOUNDERS; ERROR MATRICES; MATHEMATICAL TOOLS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS (PCA); SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR CHARACTERIZATION; SEAFLOOR SEDIMENTS; SEDIMENT CLASSIFICATION; SEDIMENT LAYERS; SHAPE PARAMETERS; SIGNAL FEATURES; SINGLE-BEAM; STATISTICAL FLUCTUATIONS; TOTAL ENERGY;

ACOUSTIC DEVICES; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA HANDLING; FEATURE EXTRACTION; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS;

EID: 79957807795     PISSN: 03649059     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JOE.2011.2122630     Document Type: Article

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