Construction of seafloor thematic maps from multibeam acoustic backscatter angular response data

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 181-187

  Rzhanov, Yuri ^a   Fonseca, Luciano ^a,b   Mayer, Larry ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BRASILIA   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Acoustic backscatter; Combinatorial optimization; Seafloor characterization; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

ABSTRACT TYPES; ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; ACOUSTIC DATA; ANGULAR RESPONSE; AUTOMATIC METHOD; GRAY-SCALE IMAGES; MOSAIC CONSTRUCTION; MULTI-BEAM; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR CHARACTERIZATION; THEMATIC MAPS;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; COMBINATORIAL OPTIMIZATION; IMAGE SEGMENTATION; MAPS;

COALESCENCE;

AUTOMATION; BACKSCATTER; OPTIMIZATION; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EID: 84857923490     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.09.001     Document Type: Article

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