Landform classification from a digital elevation model and satellite imagery

Geomorphology

Volumn 100, Issue 3-4, 2008, Pages 453-464

  Saadat, Hossein ^a   Bonnell, Robert ^a   Sharifi, Forood ^b   Mehuys, Guy ^a   Namdar, Mohammad ^b   Ale Ebrahim, Sasan ^b  

^a MCGILL UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

^b Forests Range and Watershed Management Organization   (Iran)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model (DEM); Elevation range; Geographic information systems (GIS); Golestan Dam watershed; Landform identification; Stream network

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; ALLUVIAL PLAIN; ASTER; CLASSIFICATION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DIGITAL IMAGE; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; GIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; STREAM CHANNEL; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; WATERSHED;

ASIA; EURASIA; GOLESTAN; IRAN; MIDDLE EAST;

EID: 48749094455     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2008.01.011     Document Type: Article

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