Remote identification of a shipwreck site from MBES backscatter

Journal of Environmental Management

Volumn 111, Issue , 2012, Pages 44-52

  Masetti, Giuseppe ^a   Calder, Brian ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GENOA   (Italy)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NEW HAMPSHIRE   (United States)

Author keywords

Backscatter; GLCM; K means clustering; MBES; Shipwreck; Shape method

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; BACKSCATTER; ECHO SOUNDER; FILTRATION; GEOMETRY; GIS; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; RADIOMETRIC SURVEY; REMOTE SENSING; WRECK;

ARTICLE; ECHOGRAPH; GEOGRAPHY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SHIP;

EID: 84864030944     PISSN: 03014797     EISSN: 10958630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jenvman.2012.06.037     Document Type: Article

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