Mapping Benthic Habitats in Delaware Bay and the Coastal Atlantic: Acoustic Techniques Provide Greater Coverage and High Resolution in Complex, Shallow-Water Environments

Estuaries and Coasts

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2012, Pages 682-699

  Raineault, Nicole A ^a   Trembanis, Arthur C ^a   Miller, Douglas C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Acoustics; Auto segmentation; Autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs); Benthic assemblages; Coastal Atlantic; Delaware Bay; Habitat mapping; Phase measuring bathymetric sonar; Seafloor classification; Sediment

Indexed keywords

AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRY; BENTHIC ENVIRONMENT; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; COASTAL WATER; DATA SET; HABITAT TYPE; HOMOGENEITY; RESOLUTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SEGMENTATION; SHALLOW WATER; SONAR;

ATLANTIC COAST [NORTH AMERICA]; ATLANTIC COAST [UNITED STATES]; DELAWARE BAY; UNITED STATES;

TUBICOLAE;

EID: 84857655925     PISSN: 15592723     EISSN: 15592731     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12237-011-9457-8     Document Type: Article

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