Bed diversity in the shallow water environment of Pappas lagoon in Greece

International Journal of Sediment Research

Volumn 27, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 1-17

  Papatheodorou, G ^a   Avramidis, P ^b   Fakiris, E ^a   Christodoulou, D ^a   Kontopoulos, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PATRAS   (Greece)

^b TECHNOLOGICAL EDUCATIONAL INSTITUTE OF PATRAS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Acoustic classification; Grain size; Ground truthing; Side scan sonar; Trend sediment analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 84859485533     PISSN: 10016279     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S1001-6279(12)60012-2     Document Type: Article

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