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Bikonis, Krzysztof, Marek Moszynski, and Zbigniew Lubniewski. "Application of Shape From Shading Technique for Side Scan Sonar Images." Polish Maritime Research 20, no. 3 (2013): 39–44. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2013-0033.

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Abstract Digital signal processing technology has revolutionized a way of processing, visualisation and interpretation of data acquired by underwater systems. Through many years side scan sonars were one of the most widely used imaging systems in the underwater environment. Although they are relatively cheap and easy to deploy, more powerful sensors like multibeam echo sounders and sonars are widely used today and deliver 3D bathymetry of sea bottom terrain. Side scan sonar outputs data usually in a form of grey level 2D acoustic images but the analysis of such pictures performed by human eye

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Ye, Xiufen, Haibo Yang, Chuanlong Li, Yunpeng Jia, and Peng Li. "A Gray Scale Correction Method for Side-Scan Sonar Images Based on Retinex." Remote Sensing 11, no. 11 (2019): 1281. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs11111281.

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When side-scan sonars collect data, sonar energy attenuation, the residual of time varying gain, beam patterns, angular responses, and sonar altitude variations occur, which lead to an uneven gray level in side-scan sonar images. Therefore, gray scale correction is needed before further processing of side-scan sonar images. In this paper, we introduce the causes of gray distortion in side-scan sonar images and the commonly used optical and side-scan sonar gray scale correction methods. As existing methods cannot effectively correct distortion, we propose a simple, yet effective gray scale corr

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Yan, Jun, Junxia Meng, and Jianhu Zhao. "Bottom Detection from Backscatter Data of Conventional Side Scan Sonars through 1D-UNet." Remote Sensing 13, no. 5 (2021): 1024. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/rs13051024.

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As widely applicated in many underwater research fields, conventional side-scan sonars require the sonar height to be at the seabed for geocoding seabed images. However, many interference factors, including compensation with unknown gains, suspended matters, etc., would bring difficulties in bottom detection. Existing methods need manual parameter setups or to use postprocessing methods, which limits automatic and real-time processing in complex situations. To solve this problem, a one-dimensional U-Net (1D-UNet) model for sea bottom detection of side-scan data and the bottom detection and tra

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Alekseev, G. G., E. A. Alekseeva, A. P. Sorokin, and S. A. Sorokin. "Complex of morphological analysis of images for side-scan sonar on basis of Griffon hardware platform." Issues of radio electronics 49, no. 9 (2020): 30–37. http://dx.doi.org/10.21778/2218-5453-2020-9-30-37.

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The article describes the developed computational complex of morphological image analysis for interferometric side-scan sonars. Examples of modeling the operation of the side-scan sonar in cases where the structure of bottom sediments is not known in advance are given. The results of the analysis of experimental data are considered. A description is given of the structure for constructing algorithms for morphological image analysis used in the operation of the complex. Recommendations are given on the effective use of the computing capabilities of the Griffon hardware platform for organizing p

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Trevorrow, Mark V., and Ian J. Booth. "Extraction of Ocean Wave Directional Spectra Using Steerable Doppler Side-Scan Sonars." Journal of Atmospheric and Oceanic Technology 12, no. 5 (1995): 1087–100. http://dx.doi.org/10.1175/1520-0426(1995)012<1087:eoowds>2.0.co;2.

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Bruce, M. P. "A processing requirement and resolution capability comparison of side-scan and synthetic-aperture sonars." IEEE Journal of Oceanic Engineering 17, no. 1 (1992): 106–17. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/48.126959.

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Bikonis, Krzysztof, Andrzej Stepnowski, and Marek Moszynski. "Computer Vision Techniques Applied for Reconstruction of Seafloor 3D Images from Side Scan and Synthetic Aperture Sonars Data." Journal of the Acoustical Society of America 123, no. 5 (2008): 3748. http://dx.doi.org/10.1121/1.2935303.

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Witos-Okrasińska, Dominika, Grażyna Grelowska, and Eugeniusz Kozaczka. "Influence of Natural Conditions on the Imaging of the Bottom of the Gdańsk Bay by Means of the Side Scan Sonar." Polish Maritime Research 25, s1 (2018): 104–10. http://dx.doi.org/10.2478/pomr-2018-0030.

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Abstract The interest in underwater resources is the reason for the development of modern hydroacoustic systems, including side sonars, which find numerous applications such as: research of seabed morphology and sediment characteristics, preparation of sea sediment maps, and even in special cases of biocenoses such as sea grass meadows, detection of specific targets at the bottom such as shipwrecks, mines, identification of suitable sites for maritime infrastructure. Such applications require precise information about the position of the objects to be observed. Errors affecting the depiction o

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Lee, Dae-Jae. "Acoustic Tracking of Fish Movements in an Artificial Reef Area Using a Split-beam Echo Sounder, Side-scan and Imaging Sonars at Suyeong Man, Busan, Korea." Korean Journal of Fisheries and Aquatic Sciences 46, no. 3 (2013): 273–81. http://dx.doi.org/10.5657/kfas.2013.0273.

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Geraga, Maria, Dimitris Christodoulou, Dimitrios Eleftherakis, et al. "Atlas of Shipwrecks in Inner Ionian Sea (Greece): A Remote Sensing Approach." Heritage 3, no. 4 (2020): 1210–36. http://dx.doi.org/10.3390/heritage3040067.

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Underwater cultural heritage (UCH) sites constitute an important part of the overall cultural heritage both nationally and globally as they carry cultural, environmental, scientific, technological, political, economic and social viewpoints. UCH includes not only submerged sites and buildings, but also vessels and aircrafts. The Inner Ionian Sea in Greece is a place rich in a significant number of shipwrecks with a timespan ranging from ancient times right through to the 20th century. The results herein present the study of ancient, World War I (WWI), World War II (WWII) and more recent shipwre

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Dissertations / Theses on the topic "Side scan sonars"

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Le, Bas Timothy P. "Processing techniques for TOBI side-scan sonar data." Thesis, University of Reading, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.360112.

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Beattie, Robert Scott. "Side scan sonar image formation, restoration and modelling." Thesis, Robert Gordon University, 1996. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.318551.

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Ulloa, Marco Julio. "Side-scan sonar observations of upper ocean processes." Thesis, University of Southampton, 2002. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.400484.

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Mignotte, Pierre-Yves. "Content-based registration of side-scan sonar images." Thesis, Heriot-Watt University, 2008. http://hdl.handle.net/10399/2189.

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This thesis is devoted to the image registration problem of multi-modal images with applications to underwater imagery. With the advent of Autonomous Underwater Vehicles, high resolution images of the seabed can be routinely acquired. However, the relative short range of the sensors implies that a mosaicing process is necessary to produce large scale maps.

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Fox, Peter. "An electronically focused multiple beam side scan sonar." Doctoral thesis, University of Cape Town, 1985. http://hdl.handle.net/11427/26521.

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Phased arrays have been in use since World War II but their commercial application has been constrained by the bulk and cost of the beam forming system. High resolution side scan sonar systems have many operational parameters that may only be extended with the aid of phased arrays, the resolution and the imaging rate being the most important. This thesis describes a microprocessor controlled dynamically focused side scan sonar where high resolution and high image acquisition rates are achieved. Dynamic focusing prevents the depth of field limitations of fixed focus arrays by updating the array

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Högberg, Lennarth. "Det dolda kulturlandskapet : Okända fartygslämningar i vår närmiljö." Thesis, Uppsala universitet, Institutionen för arkeologi och antik historia, 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:uu:diva-452755.

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Along Sweden’s east coast there are thousands of well-preserved shipwrecks after an extensive shipping that stretches far back in history. The Baltic Sea is a unique sea in the sense that the ship worm Teredo Navalis cannot live here, which means that the ship’s timber is well preserved under water. But we have little knowledge how many these wrecks are and where they are located. No comprehensive underwater inventory like those made on land has even been made. Therefore, these shipwrecks are threatened with destruction by our ignorance of them. By scanning water areas in our immediate environ

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Ling, Li. "Local Feature Correspondence on Side-Scan Sonar Seafloor Images." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2021. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-291803.

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In underwater environments, the perception and navigation systems are heavily dependent on the acoustic wave based sonar technology. Side-scan sonar (SSS) provides high-resolution, photo-realistic images of the seafloor at a relatively cheap price. These images could be considered potential candidates for place recognition and navigation of autonomous underwater vehicles (AUVs). Local feature correspondence matching, or the detection, description and matching of keypoints in overlapping images is a necessary building block for AUV navigation. Recent deep learning based research has resulted in

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Hamill, Daniel. "Quantifying Riverbed Sediment Using Recreational-Grade Side Scan Sonar." DigitalCommons@USU, 2017. https://digitalcommons.usu.edu/etd/6635.

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The size and organization of bed material, bed texture, is a fundamental attribute of channels and is one component of the physical habitat of aquatic ecosystems. Multiple discipline-specific definitions of texture exist and there is not a universally accepted metric(s) to quantify the spectrum of possible bed textures found in aquatic environments. Moreover, metrics to describe texture are strictly statistical. Recreational-grade side scan sonar systems now offer the possibility of imaging submerged riverbed sediment at resolutions potentially sufficient to identify subtle changes in bed text

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Xie, Yiping. "Machine Learning for Inferring Depth from Side-scan Sonar Images." Thesis, KTH, Skolan för elektroteknik och datavetenskap (EECS), 2019. http://urn.kb.se/resolve?urn=urn:nbn:se:kth:diva-264835.

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Underwater navigation using Autonomous Underwater Vehicles (AUVs), which is significant for marine science research, highly depends on the acoustic method, sonar. Typically, AUVsare equipped with side-scan sonars and multibeam sonars at the same time since they both have their advantages and limitations. Side-scan sonars have a much wider range than multibeamsonars and at the same time are much cheaper, yet they could not provide accurate depth measurements. This thesis is aiming at investigating if a machine-interpreted method could beused to translate side-scan sonar data to multibeam data w

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Humber, Stuart Richard. "High resolution side-scan sonar imaging of coral reefs in the Seychelles." Thesis, Imperial College London, 2004. http://ethos.bl.uk/OrderDetails.do?uin=uk.bl.ethos.408036.

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Books on the topic "Side scan sonars"

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Mazel, Charles. Side scan sonar training manual. Klein Associates, 1985.

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Clausner, James E. Side-scan sonar applications for evaluating coastal structures. U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, 1988.

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Clausner, James E. Side-scan sonar applications for evaluating coastal structures. U.S. Army Engineer Waterways Experiment Station, 1988.

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W, Nicholson John. Registration and variability of side scan sonar imagery. Woods Hole Oceanographic Institution, 1988.

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Fish, John Perry. Sound reflections: Advanced applications of side scan sonar. Lower Cape Pub., 2001.

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Daniel Távora de Queiroz Cobra. Estimation and correction of geometric distortions in side-scan sonar design. WHOI, 1990.

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Fish, John Perry. Sound underwater images: A guide to the generation and interpretation of side scan sonar data. Lower Cape Pub., 1990.

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Paskevich, Valerie F. Digital mapping of side-scan sonar data with the Woods Hole Image Processing System software. U.S. Dept. of the Interior, Geological Survey, 1992.

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Lothian, Amanda M. An investigation of the subduction of the Chile Ridge and the Louisville Ridge using GLORIA side-scan sonar and other marine geophysical data. University of Birmingham, 1995.

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Heath, Roger P. The development of a system for the processing and interpretation of side-scan sonar data, and its applications to gloria data from the pacific margin of Colombia and Panama. University of Birmingham, 1994.

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Book chapters on the topic "Side scan sonars"

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Klein, Martin. "Side Scan Sonar." In International Handbook of Underwater Archaeology. Springer US, 2002. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-0535-8_39.

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Klein, Martin. "New Capabilities for Side-Scan Sonar." In Maritime Archaeology. Springer US, 1998. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4899-0084-5_40.

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Alais, Pierre, Pascal Challande, François Ollivier, and Nicolas Cesbron. "A New Generation Side Scan Sonar." In Acoustical Imaging. Springer US, 1993. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-1-4615-2958-3_96.

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Morales, Juan A., and Irene Delgado. "Side-Scan Sonar Imaging of Sediment Bedload." In Encyclopedia of Estuaries. Springer Netherlands, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-94-017-8801-4_162.

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Khidkikar, Mahesh, and Ramprasad Balasubramanian. "Segmentation and Classification of Side-Scan Sonar Data." In Intelligent Robotics and Applications. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2012. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-33509-9_36.

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Wu, Ziyin, Fanlin Yang, and Yong Tang. "Side-scan Sonar and Sub-bottom Profiler Surveying." In High-resolution Seafloor Survey and Applications. Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9750-3_4.

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Taylor, J., J. A. Dowdeswell, N. H. Kenyon, R. J. Whittington, and J. Mienert. "Long-Range Side-Scan Sonar Imagery of the North Faeroes Margin." In European Margin Sediment Dynamics. Springer Berlin Heidelberg, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-3-642-55846-7_21.

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Thorpe, S. A., A. Graham, and A. Hall. "Wave and dispersion studies in shallow water using side-scan sonar." In Mixing in Estuaries and Coastal Seas. American Geophysical Union, 1996. http://dx.doi.org/10.1029/ce050p0110.

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Wu, Ziyin, Fanlin Yang, and Yong Tang. "Intelligent Detection and Recognition of Seabed Targets in Side-Scan Sonar Images." In High-resolution Seafloor Survey and Applications. Springer Singapore, 2020. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-981-15-9750-3_9.

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Asada, Miho, Kyoko Okino, Hisashi Koyama, Akira Asada, and Tamaki Ura. "Brief Report of Side-Scan Sonar Observations Around the Yokoniwa NTO Massif." In Subseafloor Biosphere Linked to Hydrothermal Systems. Springer Japan, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1007/978-4-431-54865-2_35.

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Conference papers on the topic "Side scan sonars"

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Kan, V. A., I. V. Prokhorov, and A. A. Sushchenko. "Determining the bottom surface according to data of side-scan sonars." In XXII International Symposium Atmospheric and Ocean Optics. Atmospheric Physics, edited by Gennadii G. Matvienko and Oleg A. Romanovskii. SPIE, 2016. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2248720.

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Chie Honsho, T. Ura, and A. Asada. "Mapping the Bayonnaise knoll caldera and the Hakurei hydrothermal deposit with autonomous underwater vehicle using side-scan and multi-beam sonars." In 2013 IEEE International Underwater Technology Symposium (UT 2013). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/ut.2013.6519848.

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Wang, Wenwu, Binbin Cheng, and Yao Chen. "Object detection in side scan sonar." In Ninth International Symposium on Multispectral Image Processing and Pattern Recognition (MIPPR2015), edited by Zhiguo Cao, Jayaram K. Udupa, and Henri Maître. SPIE, 2015. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.2205394.

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Weicheng Ma. "The improvement of side-scan sonar's towfish." In 2011 Second International Conference on Mechanic Automation and Control Engineering (MACE). IEEE, 2011. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/mace.2011.5988025.

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Burguera, Antoni, and Gabriel Oliver. "Intensity correction of Side-Scan Sonar images." In 2014 IEEE Emerging Technology and Factory Automation (ETFA). IEEE, 2014. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/etfa.2014.7005092.

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de Souza, Luiz Antonio Pereira, Adalberto Aurelio Azevedo, and Mariucha da Silva. "Side Scan Sonar Applied to water reservoir." In 2013 IEEE/OES Acoustics in Underwater Geosciences Symposium (RIO Acoustics). IEEE, 2013. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/rioacoustics.2013.6684025.

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Tena Ruiz, I., Y. Petillot, and D. M. Lane. "Improved AUV navigation using side-scan sonar." In Oceans 2003. Celebrating the Past ... Teaming Toward the Future (IEEE Cat. No.03CH37492). IEEE, 2003. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/oceans.2003.178034.

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Sheffer, Tal, and Hugo Guterman. "Geometrical Correction of Side-scan Sonar Images." In 2018 IEEE International Conference on the Science of Electrical Engineering in Israel (ICSEE). IEEE, 2018. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/icsee.2018.8646188.

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Pinto, Miguel, Bruno Ferreira, Anibal Matos, and Nuno Cruz. "Using side scan sonar for relative navigation." In IECON 2009 - 35th Annual Conference of IEEE Industrial Electronics (IECON 2009). IEEE, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.1109/iecon.2009.5415353.

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Sintes, Christophe R., and Basel Solaiman. "Interferometric side scan sonar and data fusion." In AeroSense 2000, edited by Belur V. Dasarathy. SPIE, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.1117/12.381664.

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Reports on the topic "Side scan sonars"

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Clausner, James E., and Joan Pope. Side-Scan Sonar Applications for Evaluating Coastal Structures. Defense Technical Information Center, 1988. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada203358.

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Hart, B. S. Side-scan sonar observations of Point Grey dump site, Strait of Georgia, British Columbia. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1992. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/132787.

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Zevenhuizen, J., and S. Solomon. Side scan sonar data interpretation, 1991, Beaufort Sea coastal survey. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1995. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/195127.

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D'Spain, Gerald L., and C. D. Chadwell. DURIP: Side Scan Sonar and Inertial Navigation System for AUV-Based Ocean Bottom/Sub-Bottom Mapping for Object Search/Identification. Defense Technical Information Center, 2009. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada501314.

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Hart, B. S., J. V. Barrie, R. G. Currie, J. L. Luternauer, D. B. Prior, and R. D. Macdonald. High Resolution Seismic and Side - Scan Sonar Mapping of the Fraser Delta Front and Adjacent Strait of Georgia, British Columbia. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 1991. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/132624.

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D'Spain, Gerald L., and C. D. Chadwell. DURIP: Side Scan Sonar and Inertial Navigation System for AUV-Based Ocean Bottom/Sub-Bottom Mapping for Object Search/Identification. Defense Technical Information Center, 2005. http://dx.doi.org/10.21236/ada572723.

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Cumming, E. H., and G. V. Sonnichsen. White Rose repetitive seafloor mapping: a correlation of side scan sonar data and a swath bathmetry image from the Grand Banks, Newfoundland. Natural Resources Canada/ESS/Scientific and Technical Publishing Services, 2000. http://dx.doi.org/10.4095/211270.

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