Detecting alluvial fans using quantitative roughness characterization and fuzzy logic analysis

Lecture Notes in Computer Science (including subseries Lecture Notes in Artificial Intelligence and Lecture Notes in Bioinformatics)

Volumn 5072 LNCS, Issue PART 1, 2008, Pages 1-15

  Taramelli, Andrea ^a,b   Melelli, Laura ^b  

^a Department of Earth and Environmental Sciences   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF PERUGIA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Alluvial fan; Curvature; DEM; Elevation; Fuzzy logic; Roughness

Indexed keywords

BENCHMARKING; CLIMATE CHANGE; CLIMATOLOGY; FANS; FUZZY SETS; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; REMOTE SENSING; SPACE OPTICS; SURVEYING; TRACKING RADAR;

ALLUVIAL FAN; CURVATURE; DEM; ELEVATION; ROUGHNESS;

FUZZY LOGIC;

EID: 54249139114     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-69839-5_1     Document Type: Conference Paper

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