Model-based acoustic remote sensing of seafloor characteristics

IEEE Transactions on Geoscience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 49, Issue 10 PART 2, 2011, Pages 3868-3877

  De, Chanchal ^a   Chakraborty, Bishwajit ^b  

^a G FAST   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Acoustic remote sensing; backscatter model; echo envelope; inversion; mean grain size; seafloor roughness spectrum parameters

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC REMOTE SENSING; BACKSCATTER MODEL; ECHO ENVELOPE; INVERSION; MEAN-GRAIN SIZE; SEA FLOOR;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACKSCATTERING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SCATTERING PARAMETERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SPECTRUM ANALYSIS;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

ACOUSTIC DATA; BACKSCATTER; BOTTOM TOPOGRAPHY; CONTINENTAL SHELF; CORRELATION; ECHO SOUNDING; GRAIN SIZE; LINEARITY; LITERATURE REVIEW; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; ROUGHNESS; SEAFLOOR; SEDIMENT ANALYSIS; SEDIMENTATION;

INDIA;

EID: 80053565968     PISSN: 01962892     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/TGRS.2011.2139218     Document Type: Article

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