Creating mountains out of Mole Hills: Automatic identification of hills and ranges using morphometric analysis

Transactions in GIS

Volumn 12, Issue 5, 2008, Pages 567-589

  Chaudhry, Omair Z ^a   Mackaness, William A ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF EDINBURGH   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Landscape visualisation; Model generalisation; Morphological partonomies; Morphology

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; LANDFORMS;

AUTOMATIC IDENTIFICATION; LANDSCAPE VISUALIZATION; LARGE-SCALES; MODEL GENERALIZATION; MORPHOLOGICAL PARTONOMIES; MORPHOMETRIC ANALYSIS; MOUNTAIN RANGES; SCALE OF OBSERVATION; SMALL FEATURES; SUBJECTIVE SELECTION;

MORPHOLOGY;

ALGORITHM; CLUSTER ANALYSIS; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; MAPPING; MORPHOLOGY; MORPHOMETRY; MOUNTAIN REGION; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; VISUALIZATION;

EDINBURGH [SCOTLAND]; EURASIA; EUROPE; FORT WILLIAM; HIGHLAND; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM; WESTERN EUROPE;

EID: 53349174998     PISSN: 13611682     EISSN: 14679671     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1467-9671.2008.01116.x     Document Type: Article

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