Experiments in the identification of terrain features using a PC-based parallel computer

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 64, Issue 2, 1998, Pages 135-142

  Rokos, Demetrius Kleanthis D ^a,b   Armstrong, Marc P ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IOWA   (United States)

^b Hellenic Mapping Consortium (HEMCO)   (Greece)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DEM; TERRAIN IDENTIFICATION;

EID: 0031885752     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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