Detection and spatial prediction of rockfalls by means of terrestrial laser scanner monitoring

Geomorphology

Volumn 119, Issue 3-4, 2010, Pages 162-171

  Abellán, Antonio ^a   Calvet, Jaume ^a   Vilaplana, Joan Manuel ^a   Blanchard, Julien ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF BARCELONA   (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITÉ DE SHERBROOKE   (Canada)

Author keywords

Displacement detection; Laser scanning; Monitoring; Pre failure deformation; Rockfall; Spatial prediction

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; DATA SET; DEFORMATION; DETECTION METHOD; DISPLACEMENT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LASER METHOD; REMOTE SENSING; ROCKFALL; SCANNER; SLOPE; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CATALONIA; SPAIN;

EID: 77952673221     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2010.03.016     Document Type: Article

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