Accounting for uncertainty in DEMs from repeat topographic surveys: Improved sediment budgets

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 35, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 136-156

  Wheaton, Joseph M ^a   Brasington, James ^b   Darby, Stephen E ^c   Sear, David A ^c  

^a UTAH STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SOUTHAMPTON   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

DEM of difference (DoD); Fluvial geomorphology; Fuzzy inference system; Morphological method; Morphological sediment budgeting; River feshie

Indexed keywords

CONFIDENCE INTERVAL; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EROSION AND DEPOSITION; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEM; FUZZY INFERENCE SYSTEMS; HIGH-RESOLUTION SURVEY; MATLAB- SOFTWARE; MODEL UNCERTAINTIES; PROBABILISTIC REPRESENTATION; SCOTLAND; SEDIMENT BUDGETS; SPATIAL COHERENCE; SPATIAL EXTENT; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; SURFACE AREA; THRESHOLDING; TOPOGRAPHIC POINTS; TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS; VOLUMETRIC CHANGES;

BUDGET CONTROL; FORESTRY; FUZZY INFERENCE; FUZZY SYSTEMS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MATLAB; RIVERS; SECURITY OF DATA; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; SURVEYS;

UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; SEDIMENT BUDGET; SPATIAL VARIATION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; UNCERTAINTY ANALYSIS;

FESHIE RIVER; HIGHLANDS; SCOTLAND; UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 77649140888     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.1886     Document Type: Article

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