Abstract Anderson, JT, Holliday, DV, Kloser, R., Reid, DG, and Simard, Y. 2008. Acoustic
seabed classification: current practice and future directions.–ICES Journal of Marine …

A plethora of methods to monitor shallow sublittoral benthic habitats and communities are
available to the marine researcher today. The most widely used methods are reviewed and …

Species identification is “the grand challenge”(MacLennan and Holliday, 1996) for acoustic
methods used to estimate fish abundance (Simmonds and MacLennan, 2005). Acoustic …

Seafloor habitat map** plays an important role in marine environmental protection and
marine database management. Multibeam echo-sounding system (MBES) has unique …

Accurate acquisition of information on seabed sediment distributions plays an important role
in the construction of basic marine geographic databases. Although a multibeam echo …

Marine habitat map** provides information on seabed substrata and faunal community
structure to users including research scientists, conservation organizations, and policy …

Rapid alterations of aquatic ecosystems associated with changing climate and growing
anthropogenic stress require the development of effective and low-cost acoustic methods of …

To meet the demands of marine scientific research and ocean engineering construction for
cost-effective, high-resolution, and large-scale acquisition of seafloor topography, this study …

ABSTRACT Costa, B., 2019. Multispectral acoustic backscatter: How useful is it for marine
habitat map** and management? Journal of Coastal Research, 35 (5), 1062–1079 …

Acoustic seabed classification is a useful tool for monitoring marine benthic habitats over
broad-scales (> 1 km2) and meso-scales (10 m2–1 km2). Its utility in this context was …