Detecting Alpine landforms from remotely sensed imagery. A pilot study in the Bavarian Alps

Geomorphology

Volumn 93, Issue 1-2, 2008, Pages 104-119

  Schneevoigt, Nora Jennifer ^a,c   van der Linden, Sebastian ^b,c   Thamm, Hans Peter ^c   Schrott, Lothar ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

^b HUMBOLDT UNIVERSITY   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BONN   (Germany)

^d UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

Author keywords

Fuzzy logic classification; Image segmentation; Landform detection; Reintal; Remote sensing; Sediment storage

Indexed keywords

ASTER; DETECTION METHOD; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDFORM; REMOTE SENSING; SPECTRAL RESOLUTION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

ALPS; BAVARIA; BAVARIAN ALPS; CENTRAL ALPS; CENTRAL EUROPE; EURASIA; EUROPE; GERMANY; WETTERSTEIN MOUNTAINS; ZUGSPITZE;

EID: 35648996053     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2006.12.034     Document Type: Article

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