Automatic Segmentation of Multi-Beam Data for Predictive Mapping of Benthic Habitats on the Chella Seamount (North-Eastern Alboran Sea, Western Mediterranean)

IEEE Journal of Selected Topics in Applied Earth Observations and Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 4, 2011, Pages 809-813

  Coiras, Enrique ^a   Lo Iacono, Claudio ^b   Gràcia, Eulalia ^b   Dañobeitia, Juanjo ^b   Sanz, José Luis ^c  

^a European Union   (Belgium)

^b CSIC Unidad de Tecnologia Marina UTM   (Spain)

^c INSTITUTO ESPAÑOL DE OCEANOGRAFÍA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Acoustic imaging; automatic classification; benthic habitats; data fusion; marine geology

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; ALBORAN SEA; AUTOMATIC CLASSIFICATION; AUTOMATIC SEGMENTATIONS; BASE MAP; BENTHIC HABITATS; CLASSIFICATION METHODS; COLD-WATER CORALS; DEPTH MEASUREMENTS; MULTI-BEAM; PREDICTIVE MAPPING; WESTERN MEDITERRANEAN;

ACOUSTIC IMAGING; CLASSIFICATION (OF INFORMATION); DATA FUSION; ECOSYSTEMS; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR SYSTEMS; RADAR IMAGING; SUBMARINE GEOLOGY;

MAPPING;

ACOUSTIC IMAGERY; BACKSCATTER; BENTHOS; CORAL; ECOSYSTEM; HABITAT; SEAMOUNT;

ALBORAN SEA; MEDITERRANEAN SEA;

ANTHOZOA;

EID: 83655198294     PISSN: 19391404     EISSN: 21511535     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/JSTARS.2011.2123874     Document Type: Article

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