Volume 39, Issue 1-2

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June 2018

Special Issue: Seafloor Backscatter Data from Swath Mapping Echosounders: from Technological Development to Novel Applications

Issue Editors:

Geoffroy Lamarche,
Xavier Lurton

20 articles in this issue

Introduction to the Special Issue “Seafloor backscatter data from swath mapping echosounders: from technological development to novel applications”
Geoffroy Lamarche
Xavier Lurton
Editorial 28 March 2018 Pages: 1 - 3
Recommendations for improved and coherent acquisition and processing of backscatter data from seafloor-mapping sonars
Geoffroy Lamarche
Xavier Lurton
Original Research Paper Open access 15 May 2017 Pages: 5 - 22
User expectations for multibeam echo sounders backscatter strength data-looking back into the future
Vanessa Lucieer
Marc Roche
Geoffroy Lamarche
Original Research Paper 11 May 2017 Pages: 23 - 40
Seafloor multibeam backscatter calibration experiment: comparing 45°-tilted 38-kHz split-beam echosounder and 30-kHz multibeam data
Yoann Ladroit
Geoffroy Lamarche
Arne Pallentin
Original Research Paper Open access 20 December 2017 Pages: 41 - 53
Backscatter calibration of high-frequency multibeam echosounder using a reference single-beam system, on natural seafloor
Dimitrios Eleftherakis
Laurent Berger
Xavier Lurton
Original Research Paper 28 February 2018 Pages: 55 - 73
Toward a standard line for use in multibeam echo sounder calibration
Thomas C. Weber
Glen Rice
Michael Smith
Original Research Paper Open access 21 November 2017 Pages: 75 - 87
Control of the repeatability of high frequency multibeam echosounder backscatter by using natural reference areas
Marc Roche
Koen Degrendele
Xavier Lurton
Original Research Paper Open access 23 January 2018 Pages: 89 - 104
Backscattering from a sandy seabed measured by a calibrated multibeam echosounder in the 190–400 kHz frequency range
Gorm Wendelboe
Original Research Paper Open access 02 April 2018 Pages: 105 - 120
Multibeam sonar backscatter data processing
Alexandre C. G. Schimel
Jonathan Beaudoin
Daniel Ierodiaconou
Original Research Paper 31 January 2018 Pages: 121 - 137
Waterfall notch-filtering for restoration of acoustic backscatter records from Admiralty Bay, Antarctica
Luciano Fonseca
Edson Mintsu Hung
Fábio José Guedes Magrani
Original Research Paper 03 August 2017 Pages: 139 - 149
A framework to quantify uncertainties of seafloor backscatter from swath mapping echosounders
Mashkoor Malik
Xavier Lurton
Larry Mayer
Original Research Paper 22 February 2018 Pages: 151 - 168
Analysis of calibrated seafloor backscatter for habitat classification methodology and case study of 158 spots in the Bay of Biscay and Celtic Sea
Ridha Fezzani
Laurent Berger
Original Research Paper 31 January 2018 Pages: 169 - 181
Analysis of seafloor backscatter strength dependence on the survey azimuth using multibeam echosounder data
Xavier Lurton
Dimitrios Eleftherakis
Jean-Marie Augustin
Original Research Paper Open access 30 May 2017 Pages: 183 - 203
Validation of automated supervised segmentation of multibeam backscatter data from the Chatham Rise, New Zealand
Jess I. T. Hillman
Geoffroy Lamarche
Jens Schneider von Deimling
Original Research Paper 19 January 2017 Pages: 205 - 227
Seafloor change detection using multibeam echosounder backscatter: case study on the Belgian part of the North Sea
Giacomo Montereale-Gavazzi
Marc Roche
Vera Van Lancker
Original Research Paper Open access 31 May 2017 Pages: 229 - 247
Modelling the distribution of hard seabed using calibrated multibeam acoustic backscatter data in a tropical, macrotidal embayment: Darwin Harbour, Australia
P. Justy W. Siwabessy
Maggie Tran
Ian Atkinson
Original Research Paper Open access 09 May 2017 Pages: 249 - 269
Combining pixel and object based image analysis of ultra-high resolution multibeam bathymetry and backscatter for habitat mapping in shallow marine waters
Daniel Ierodiaconou
Alexandre C. G. Schimel
Alex Rattray
Original Research Paper 03 January 2018 Pages: 271 - 288
Multi-angle backscatter classification and sub-bottom profiling for improved seafloor characterization
Evangelos Alevizos
Mirjam Snellen
Jens Greinert
Original Research Paper 08 June 2017 Pages: 289 - 306
Multisource multibeam backscatter data: developing a strategy for the production of benthic habitat maps using semi-automated seafloor classification methods
Myriam Lacharité
Craig J. Brown
Vicki Gazzola
Original Research Paper 23 August 2017 Pages: 307 - 322
Improved detection and mapping of deepwater hydrocarbon seeps: optimizing multibeam echosounder seafloor backscatter acquisition and processing techniques
Garrett A. Mitchell
Daniel L. Orange
Paul Kennedy
Original Research Paper 10 February 2018 Pages: 323 - 347

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