Use of a three-dimensional laser scanner to digitally capture the topography of sand dunes in high spatial resolution

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 29, Issue 3, 2004, Pages 391-398

  Nagihara, Seiichi ^a   Mulligan, Kevin R ^a   Xiong, Wei ^a  

^a TEXAS TECH UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model; LIDAR; Sand dune; White sands

Indexed keywords

DATA REDUCTION; EARTH SCIENCES; INTERPOLATION; MAPPING; MATHEMATICAL MODELS; MORPHOLOGY; SAND; SURFACE PROPERTIES;

LASER SCANNER; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

OPTICAL RADAR;

DUNE; EOLIAN PROCESS; GROUND-BASED MEASUREMENT; LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHY;

NEW MEXICO; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 1942442185     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1026     Document Type: Article

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