Gully erosion mapping using ASTER data and drainage network analysis in the main Ethiopian rift

International Geoscience and Remote Sensing Symposium (IGARSS)

Volumn 1, Issue , 2009, Pages

  Bouaziz, Moncef ^a,b   Wijaya, Arief ^a,c   Gloaguen, Richard ^a  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF SFAX   (Tunisia)

^c GADJAH MADA UNIVERSITY   (Indonesia)

Author keywords

ASTER; Drainage network; Gully erosion; MLC

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ADVANCED SPACEBORNE THERMAL EMISSION AND REFLECTION RADIOMETER; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ASTER DATA; CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; DENSITY DISTRIBUTIONS; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; DRAINAGE SYSTEMS; GULLY EROSION; MAIN ETHIOPIAN RIFT; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; MIOCENE; PRECAMBRIAN BASEMENT; STUDY AREAS;

DATA HANDLING; ELECTRIC NETWORK ANALYSIS; GEOLOGY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; VOLCANIC ROCKS;

DRAINAGE;

EID: 77950949240     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: 10.1109/IGARSS.2009.5416927     Document Type: Conference Paper

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