Model-based seafloor characterization employing multi-beam angular backscatter data-A comparative study with dual-frequency single beam

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 130, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 3623-3632

  Haris, K ^a   Chakraborty, Bishwajit ^a   De, Chanchal ^b   Prabhudesai, R G ^a   Fernandes, William ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

^b G FAST   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER DATA; BACKSCATTER SIGNALS; COMPARATIVE STUDIES; COMPOSITE ROUGHNESS; CONTINENTAL SHELVES; DUAL FREQUENCY; FINE GRAINS; GEOACOUSTIC INVERSION; GROUND TRUTH DATA; INTERFACE ROUGHNESS; INVERSION RESULTS; MB SYSTEMS; MEAN-GRAIN SIZE; MODEL RESULTS; MULTI-BEAM; ROUGHNESS SPECTRUM; SEA FLOOR; SEAFLOOR CHARACTERIZATION; SEDIMENT SAMPLES; SINGLE BEAM; SUBSTRATE TYPES; VOLUME PARAMETERS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; BACKSCATTERING; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; SEDIMENTOLOGY;

PARAMETER ESTIMATION;

EID: 84859141590     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.3658454     Document Type: Article

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