Anisotropic scaling of remotely sensed drainage basins: The differential anisotropy scaling technique

Nonlinear Processes in Geophysics

Volumn 14, Issue 4, 2007, Pages 337-350

  Beaulieu, A ^a,c   Gaonac'h, H ^a   Lovejoy, S ^b  

^a UNIVERSITÉ DU QUÉBEC À MONTRÉAL   (Canada)

^b MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^c NATURAL RESOURCES CANADA   (Canada)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ANISOTROPY; ASTER; DRAINAGE BASIN; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ASIA; CHINA; DECEPTION CANYON; EURASIA; FAR EAST; LOESS PLATEAU; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; UTAH;

EID: 34547347376     PISSN: 10235809     EISSN: 16077946     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/npg-14-337-2007     Document Type: Article

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