Morphological approach to extract ridge and valley connectivity networks from Digital Elevation Models

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 24, Issue 3, 2003, Pages 573-581

  Daya Sagar, B S ^a   Murthy, M B R ^a   Babu Rao, C ^b   Raj, Baldev ^b  

^a MULTIMEDIA UNIVERSITY   (Malaysia)

^b INDIRA GANDHI CENTRE FOR ATOMIC RESEARCH   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

MORPHOLOGY; TOPOLOGY;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODELS;

REMOTE SENSING;

ALGORITHM; CHANNEL; CONNECTIVITY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VALLEY;

EID: 0037429397     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160304983     Document Type: Article

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