Pre-processing algorithms and landslide modelling on remotely sensed DEMs

Geomorphology

Volumn 113, Issue 1-2, 2009, Pages 110-125

  Santini, Monia ^a   Grimaldi, Salvatore ^a,b   Nardi, Fernando ^b   Petroselli, Andrea ^a   Rulli, Maria Cristina ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TUSCIA   (Italy)

^b SAPIENZA UNIVERSITY OF ROME   (Italy)

^c POLITECNICO DI MILANO   (Italy)

Author keywords

ASTER; DEM artifacts; Landslide; PEM4PIT; SHALSTAB

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; ASTER; CATCHMENT; DATA PROCESSING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ESTIMATION METHOD; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSLIDE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PARAMETERIZATION; REMOTE SENSING; RISK ASSESSMENT; SLOPE STABILITY;

EURASIA; EUROPE; ITALY; SOUTHERN EUROPE;

EID: 70349989029     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2009.03.023     Document Type: Article

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