Estimation of mean grain size of seafloor sediments using neural network

Marine Geophysical Research

Volumn 33, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 45-53

  De, Chanchal ^a   Chakraborty, Bishwajit ^b  

^a G FAST   (India)

^b NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Acoustic backscatter; Echo features; Mean grain size; Neural networks; Seafloor sediments

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC BACKSCATTER; ACOUSTIC FREQUENCY; AVERAGE VALUES; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DUAL FREQUENCY; ECHO FEATURES; ECHO SOUNDERS; MEAN GRAIN SIZE; MODEL BASED APPROACH; MULTI LAYER PERCEPTRON; SEAFLOOR SEDIMENTS; SINGLE-BEAM;

ACOUSTIC VARIABLES MEASUREMENT; ACOUSTIC WAVE BACKSCATTERING; ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACKPROPAGATION ALGORITHMS; NEURAL NETWORKS; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

ALGORITHM; ARTIFICIAL NEURAL NETWORK; BACK PROPAGATION; BACKSCATTER; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; GRAIN SIZE; SEAFLOOR;

EID: 84858150040     PISSN: 00253235     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11001-011-9145-x     Document Type: Article

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