Automated geostatistical seafloor classification - Principles, parameters, feature vectors, and discrimination criteria

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 22, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 35-41

  Herzfeld, Ute Christina ^a   Higginson, Chris A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathymetric data; Geologic and morphologic mapping; Surface classification; Variogram parameters; Western flank of the Mid Atlantic Ridge

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRIC DATA; BATHYMETRY; CLASSIFICATION SYSTEMS; DIRECTIONAL VARIOGRAM; GEOSTATISTICAL METHOD; GEOSTATISTICS; SEA FLOOR CLASSIFICATION; SEAFLOOR MAPPING; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TOPOGRAPHY; VARIOGRAM PARAMETERS;

ATLANTIC, MID-ATLANTIC RIDGE;

EID: 0029753756     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0098-3004(96)89522-7     Document Type: Article

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