RivWidth: A software tool for the calculation of river widths from remotely sensed imagery

IEEE Geoscience and Remote Sensing Letters

Volumn 5, Issue 1, 2008, Pages 70-73

  Pavelsky, Tamlin M ^a   Smith, Laurence C ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

Algorithms; Fluvial geomorphology; Hydrology; River width; Rivers

Indexed keywords

COMPUTER AIDED SOFTWARE ENGINEERING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; RIVERS; ROUTING ALGORITHMS;

FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; RIVER WIDTH;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 38349087511     PISSN: 1545598X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1109/LGRS.2007.908305     Document Type: Article

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