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| Malik, Mashkoor; Lurton, Xavier; Mayer, Larry. |
| Multibeam echosounders (MBES) have become a widely used acoustic remote sensing tool to map and study the seafloor, providing co-located bathymetry and seafloor backscatter. Although the uncertainty associated with MBES-derived bathymetric data has been studied extensively, the question of backscatter uncertainty has been addressed only minimally and hinders the quantitative use of MBES seafloor backscatter. This paper explores approaches to identifying uncertainty sources associated with MBES-derived backscatter measurements. The major sources of uncertainty are catalogued and the magnitudes of their relative contributions to the backscatter uncertainty budget are evaluated. These major uncertainty sources include seafloor insonified area (1–3 dB),... |
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Palavras-chave: Multibeam echosounder; Calibration; Incidence angle. |
| Ano: 2018 |
URL: https://archimer.ifremer.fr/doc/00429/54018/57435.pdf |
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