Delineation of valleys and valley floors

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

Volumn 5266 LNCS, Issue , 2008, Pages 320-336

  Straumann, Ralph K ^a   Purves, Ross S ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ZURICH   (Switzerland)

Author keywords

Delineation; Geomorphometry; Landform; Valley; Valley floor

Indexed keywords

FLOORS; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; PIXELS;

BOTTOM UP APPROACH; DELINEATION; GEOMORPHOMETRY; LOCAL CONVEXITIES; OBJECT BASED; REGION GROWING; VALLEY; VALLEY FLOOR;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 56749104146     PISSN: 03029743     EISSN: 16113349     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-87473-7_21     Document Type: Conference Paper

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