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In recent years, much work has been done to determine the target strength of marine organisms. This effort has been motivated by the extensive use of acoustic techniques to obtain population abundance estimates of fish stocks [1,2]. There has also been an increasing interest in the use of acoustic techniques to study and quantify crustacean and plankton populations. The two commonly used acoustic quantification techniques, echo counting and echo integration, both require a determination of the acoustic size of individual scatterers in the population [3,4].
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Ehrenberg, J.E. (1989). A Review of Target Strength Estimation Techniques. In: Chan, Y.T. (eds) Underwater Acoustic Data Processing. NATO ASI Series, vol 161. Springer, Dordrecht. https://doi.org/10.1007/978-94-009-2289-1_17
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