Estimation and propagation of error in measurements of river channel movement from aerial imagery

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2005, Pages 635-643

  Mount, Nicholas ^a   Louis, John ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^b CHARLES STURT UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Aerial photography; Channel change; Error estimation; Error propagation

Indexed keywords

ERROR ANALYSIS; ESTIMATION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

CHANNEL MIGRATION; IMAGE DATES; REGISTRATION ERRORS; RIVER CHANNELS;

RIVERS;

AERIAL SURVEY; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; ERROR ANALYSIS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MEASUREMENT METHOD; RIVER CHANNEL;

EID: 19944362556     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1172     Document Type: Article

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