Automatic regional classification of topography in Norway

Norsk Geologisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 87, Issue 1-2, 2007, Pages 167-180

  Etzelmüller, Bernd ^a   Romstad, Bård ^a   Fjellanger, Jakob ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OSLO   (Norway)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; CONFERENCE PROCEEDING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GLACIAL EROSION; LAND CLASSIFICATION; MASS MOVEMENT; PARAMETERIZATION; QUATERNARY; TOPOGRAPHY; ZONATION;

EURASIA; EUROPE; NORTHERN EUROPE; NORWAY; SCANDINAVIA;

EID: 51849153932     PISSN: 0029196X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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