Catchment-scale mapping of surface grain size in gravel bed rivers using airborne digital imagery

Water Resources Research

Volumn 40, Issue 7, 2004, Pages

  Carbonneau, Patrice E ^a   Lane, Stuart N ^a   Bergeron, Normand E ^b  

^a DURHAM UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

Airborne remote sensing; Digital image processing; Fluvial grain size measurement; Image semivariance; Image texture

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CALIBRATION; CATCHMENTS; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; GRAVEL; IMAGE PROCESSING;

CATCHMENT SCALE MAPPING; LOCAL IMAGE TEXTURE;

WATER RESOURCES;

AIRBORNE SENSING; DIGITAL IMAGE; GRAIN SIZE; GRAVEL BED STREAM; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 4143113430     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2003WR002759     Document Type: Article

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