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    Sonar Imaging of the Seabed Techniques, Performance, Applications

    A discussion of image-forming sidescan sonars in the ocean including history, principles, acoustics, image defects and artifacts and notable successes.

    M. L. Somers in Acoustic Signal Processing for Ocean Exploration (1993)

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    Interference fringes on GLORIA side-scan sonar images from the Bering Sea and their implications

    GLORIA side-scan sonographs from the Bering Sea Basin show a complex pattern of interference fringes sub-parallel to the ship's track. Surveys along the same trackline made in 1986 and 1987 show nearly identic...

    Q. J. Huggett, A. K. Cooper, M. L. Somers, A. R. Stubbs in Marine Geophysical Researches (1992)

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    GLORIA image processing: The state of the art

    This chapter presents a summary of the image-processing techniques being used at present in the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory's GLORIA long-range sidescan sonar system. It begins with a...

    R. C. Searle, T. P. Le Bas, N. C. Mitchell, M. L. Somers in Marine Geophysical Researches (1990)

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    GLORIA Image Processing: The State of the Art

    This chapter presents a summary of the image-processing techniques being used at present in the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences Deacon Laboratory’s GLORIA long-range sidescan sonar system. It begins with a...

    R. C. Searle, T. P. Le Bas, N. C. Mitchell in Marine Geological Surveying and Sampling (1990)

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    Possibilities of using the GLORIA system for manganese nodule assessment

    The I.O.S. long range side-scan sonar GLORIA has been widely used over a variety of seabed types, but until recently had not been used over an independently authenticated field of manganese nodules. In the Eas...

    Q. J. Huggett, M. L. Somers in Marine Geophysical Researches (1988)

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    An experimental survey of a herring fishery by long-range sonar

    For 3 years, the Institute of Oceanographic Sciences has operated a long-range side-scan sonar for viewing the texture and topography of the ocean floor (project G.L.O.R.I.A., Geological Long Range Inclined As...

    J. S. M. Rusby, M. L. Somers, J. Revie, B. S. McCartney, A. R. Stubbs in Marine Biology (1973)