Simulations of multi-beam sonar echos from schooling individual fish in a quiet environment

Journal of the Acoustical Society of America

Volumn 132, Issue 6, 2012, Pages 3720-3734

  Holmin, Arne Johannes ^a   Handegard, Nils Olav ^b   Korneliussen, Rolf J ^b   Tjøstheim, Dag ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BERGEN   (Norway)

^b INSTITUTE OF MARINE RESEARCH   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC WAVELENGTH; DIRECTIVITY; ECHO SOUNDERS; FISH BEHAVIOR; FISH LENGTH; FISH SCHOOL; MULTI FREQUENCY; MULTIBEAM SONAR; ORIENTATION DISTRIBUTIONS; POTENTIAL SOURCES; RESEARCH VESSELS; TARGET STRENGTH;

BIOMASS; PROFILOMETRY; SHIPS; SOCIETIES AND INSTITUTIONS; SONAR;

FISH;

WATER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMAL; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; COMPARATIVE STUDY; COMPUTER SIMULATION; EQUIPMENT; FISH; HISTOLOGY; MATHEMATICAL COMPUTING; MOTION; PHYSIOLOGY; POPULATION DENSITY; RADIATION SCATTERING; SEA; SIGNAL PROCESSING; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND; SOUND DETECTION; SWIMMING; TRANSDUCER;

ACOUSTICS; ANIMALS; BIOMASS; COMPUTER SIMULATION; FISHES; MOTION; NUMERICAL ANALYSIS, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; OCEANS AND SEAS; POPULATION DENSITY; SCATTERING, RADIATION; SIGNAL PROCESSING, COMPUTER-ASSISTED; SOCIAL BEHAVIOR; SOUND; SOUND SPECTROGRAPHY; SWIMMING; TRANSDUCERS; WATER;

EID: 84870881914     PISSN: 00014966     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1121/1.4763981     Document Type: Article

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