Automated classification of landforms on Mars

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 32, Issue 5, 2006, Pages 604-614

  Bue, B D ^a   Stepinski, T F ^b  

^a Purdue University   (United States)

^b LUNAR AND PLANETARY INSTITUTE   (United States)

Author keywords

Automated techniques; Digital topography models; Landform classification; Mars; Self organizing maps

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; MAPPING; MORPHOLOGY; PLANETS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACES; VECTORS;

AUTOMATED TECHNIQUES; DIGITAL ELEVATION DATA; DIGITAL TOPOGRAPHY MODELS; GEOMORPHIC MAP; LANDFORM CLASSIFICATION; MARTIAN SURFACE MORPHOLOGY;

LANDFORMS;

GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; MORPHOLOGY; PLANETS; SELF ORGANIZING MAPS; STATISTICAL METHODS; SURFACES; VECTORS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOSTATISTICS; LANDFORM; MARS; NUMERICAL METHOD; SELF ORGANIZATION;

EID: 33645887817     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2005.09.004     Document Type: Article

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