Discrimination of fluvial and eolian features on large ignimbrite sheets around La Pacana Caldera, Chile, using Landsat and SRTM-derived DEM

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 108, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 24-41

  Bailey, John E ^a   Self, Stephen ^b   Wooller, Luke K ^b   Mouginis Mark, Peter J ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALASKA FAIRBANKS   (United States)

^b OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF HAWAII   (United States)

Author keywords

Erosion patterns; Ignimbrite; La Pacana; Landsat TM; SRTM

Indexed keywords

EROSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; SATELLITE COMMUNICATION SYSTEMS; WIND EFFECTS;

EROSION PATTERNS; IGNIMBRITE; LA PACANA; LANDSAT TM; SRTM;

RIVERS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EOLIAN PROCESS; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; IGNIMBRITE; LANDFORM; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; TOPOGRAPHY;

ANTOFAGASTA; CHILE; LA PACANA CALDERA; SOUTH AMERICA;

EID: 34047263609     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2006.10.018     Document Type: Article

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