Acoustic seabed segmentation from direct statistical clustering of entire multibeam sonar backscatter curves.

A fast, simple method is presented to obtain acoustic seabed segmentation from multibeam sonar backscatter data, for situations where processed backscatter curves are already available. Unsupervised statistical clustering is used to classify multibeam sonar backscatter curves in their entirety, with...

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Bibliographic Details
Main Authors: Hamilton, L., Parnum, Iain
Format: Journal Article
Published: Elsevier Ltd 2011
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Online Access:http://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11937/20428