A transferable method for the automated grain sizing of river gravels

Water Resources Research

Volumn 41, Issue 7, 2005, Pages 1-12

  Graham, David J ^a   Rice, Stephen P ^a   Reid, Ian ^a  

^a LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; GRAVEL; IMAGE PROCESSING; OBJECT RECOGNITION; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SEDIMENTS;

AUTOMATED GRAIN SIZING; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION; TRADITIONAL MEASUREMENT TECHNIQUES; WOLMAN SAMPLING;

GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE;

GRAIN SIZE; GRAVEL BED STREAM;

EID: 23944495534     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2004WR003868     Document Type: Article

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