Title :
Classification of sonar measures using optimized wavelets
Author :
Barat, Christian ; Rendas, Maria João
Author_Institution :
CNRS, Sophia-Antipolis, France
Abstract :
This paper presents methods to extract features from received echoes from a sonar. Once the features are extracted, performances are estimated using a Linear Discriminant Analysis to classify the sea bottom in 2 classes, sand and posidonia.
Keywords :
oceanographic techniques; remotely operated vehicles; sand; seafloor phenomena; sonar detection; underwater sound; wavelet transforms; Linear Discriminant Analysis; Remotely Operated Vehicle; optimized wavelet; posidonia; sand; sea bottom; sonar echo; sonar measure classification; underwater vehicles; Cameras; Data mining; Feature extraction; Pattern recognition; Principal component analysis; Remotely operated vehicles; Sea measurements; Sonar measurements; Sonar navigation; Wavelet packets;
Conference_Titel :
OCEANS '02 MTS/IEEE
Print_ISBN :
0-7803-7534-3
DOI :
10.1109/OCEANS.2002.1191976
