Do marine substrates 'look' and 'sound' the same? Supervised classification of multibeam acoustic data using autonomous underwater vehicle images

Estuarine, Coastal and Shelf Science

Volumn 117, Issue , 2013, Pages 94-106

  Lucieer, Vanessa ^a   Hill, Nicole A ^a   Barrett, Neville S ^a   Nichol, Scott ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TASMANIA   (Australia)

^b Marine and Coastal Environment Group   (Australia)

Author keywords

Autonomous underwater vehicles; Image classification; Multibeam acoustic data; Substrate prediction

Indexed keywords

ACOUSTIC DATA; AUTONOMOUS UNDERWATER VEHICLE; BACKSCATTER; BATHYMETRY; BIODIVERSITY; CLASSIFICATION; COASTAL WATER; CORAL REEF; DATA SET; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MARINE ENVIRONMENT; NUMERICAL MODEL; SATELLITE DATA; SEGMENTATION; SONAR; SPONGE; SUBSTRATE; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84873720043     PISSN: 02727714     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecss.2012.11.001     Document Type: Article

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