Assessing the ability of airborne LiDAR to map river bathymetry

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 33, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 773-783

  Hilldale, Robert C ^a   Raff, David ^a  

^a U S BUREAU OF RECLAMATION   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathymetric LiDAR; Channel geometry; River survey

Indexed keywords

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); BATHYMETRY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; TOPOGRAPHY;

RIVER BATHYMETRY; RIVER BED; RIVER SURVEY; STREAMBED TOPOGRAPHY;

RIVERS;

ANALYSIS OF VARIANCE (ANOVA); BATHYMETRY; ERROR ANALYSIS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; RIVERS; TOPOGRAPHY;

AIRBORNE SURVEY; BATHYMETRY; CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; NUMERICAL MODEL; RIVER BASIN; STREAM BED;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WASHINGTON [UNITED STATES]; YAKIMA BASIN;

EID: 42949115052     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1575     Document Type: Article

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