Unsupervised fuzzy classification and object-based image analysis of multibeam data to map deep water substrates, Cook Strait, New Zealand

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 31, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1236-1247

  Lucieer, Vanessa ^a   Lamarche, Geoffroy ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

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

Author keywords

Backscatter; Bathymetry; Fuzzy c means; Habitat mapping; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRY; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; CORRELATION; DATA SET; DEEP WATER; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LANDFORM; MAPPING METHOD; SEAFLOOR; SEGMENTATION; SPATIAL DISTRIBUTION; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS; WATER DEPTH;

COOK STRAIT; NEW ZEALAND;

EID: 79958116173     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2011.04.016     Document Type: Article

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