Model-based sediment classification using single-beam echosounder signals

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 129, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 2878-2888

  Snellen, Mirjam ^a   Siemes, Kerstin ^a   Simons, Dick G ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REMOTE SENSING; ACOUSTIC SIGNALS; BEAM WIDTHS; CLASSIFICATION TOOL; COMPLEX MODELING; COMPUTATIONAL COSTS; COMPUTATIONAL EXPENSE; DIFFERENTIAL EVOLUTION METHOD; ECHO SOUNDERS; LOW COSTS; MEAN-GRAIN SIZE; MODEL BASED APPROACH; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; SEDIMENT CLASSIFICATION; SEDIMENT PROPERTIES; SINGLE-BEAM; THREE PARAMETERS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; EVOLUTIONARY ALGORITHMS; REFLECTION; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING PARAMETERS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ARTICLE; CLASSIFICATION; INSTRUMENTATION; MARINE BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICS; PARTICLE SIZE; SEDIMENT; SOUND; THEORETICAL MODEL;

ACOUSTICS; GEOLOGIC SEDIMENTS; MARINE BIOLOGY; MATHEMATICS; MODELS, THEORETICAL; PARTICLE SIZE; SOUND; WATER;

EID: 79959623193     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3569718     Document Type: Article

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