Thermal imaging of sedimentary features on alluvial fans

Planetary and Space Science

Volumn 58, Issue 4, 2010, Pages 482-508

  Hardgrove, Craig ^a   Moersch, Jeffrey ^a   Whisner, Stephen ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TENNESSEE   (United States)

^b BLOOMSBURG UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Alluvial fans; Debris flows; Incised channels; Remote sensing; Thermal inertia; Thermal infrared

Indexed keywords

ALLUVIAL FANS; CROSS-CUTTING; DEBRIS FLOWS; FEATURE TYPES; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; GEOLOGICAL INTERPRETATION; GRAIN SIZE; GRAIN-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; GROUND BASED; HIGH RESOLUTION; POTENTIAL APPLICATIONS; REGIONAL SCALE; SEDIMENTARY PROCESS; THERMAL IMAGES; THERMAL IMAGING; THERMAL INERTIA; THERMAL INFRARED; VISIBLE IMAGE; VISIBLE IMAGING;

DEBRIS; FANS; REMOTE SENSING; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 76349087136     PISSN: 00320633     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.pss.2009.08.012     Document Type: Article

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