Seabed habitat mapping employing single and multi-beam backscatter data: A case study from the western continental shelf of India

Continental Shelf Research

Volumn 48, Issue , 2012, Pages 40-49

  Haris, K ^a   Chakraborty, Bishwajit ^a   Ingole, Baban ^a   Menezes, Andrew ^a   Srivastava, Ratan ^a  

^a NATIONAL INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (India)

Author keywords

Backscatter strength; Habitat mapping; Multi beam; Single beam

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER; BENTHOS; CONTINENTAL SHELF; DEEP-SEA SEDIMENT; DEPOSIT FEEDER; ECHO SOUNDER; FILTER FEEDER; FINE GRAINED SEDIMENT; FUNCTIONAL GROUP; GIS; GRAIN SIZE; GRANULOMETRY; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; SEAFLOOR; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SHELF SEDIMENT; SUBSTRATE;

GOA; INDIA;

EID: 84867888480     PISSN: 02784343     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.csr.2012.08.010     Document Type: Article

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