High-frequency multibeam echosounder classification for rapid environmental assessment

Proceedings - European Conference on Noise Control

Volumn , Issue , 2008, Pages 4261-4266

  Siemes, K ^a   Snellen, M ^a   Simons, D G ^a   Hermand, J P ^b   Meyer, M ^b,c   Le Gace, J C ^d  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b UNIVERSITÉ LIBRE DE BRUXELLES   (Belgium)

^c Royal Netherlands Naval College   (Netherlands)

^d NATO UNDERSEA RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BACKSCATTER STRENGTH; BAYES DECISION RULES; CLASSIFICATION APPROACH; ENVIRONMENTAL CHARACTERIZATION; MULTIBEAM ECHO SOUNDER; MULTIPLE HYPOTHESIS; RAPID ENVIRONMENTAL ASSESSMENTS; SEA SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ACOUSTIC PROPERTIES; BACKSCATTERING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE WATERS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE SONAR;

ACOUSTIC NOISE;

EID: 84874880404     PISSN: 22265147     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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