A method for computation of surface roughness of digital elevation model terrains via multiscale analysis

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 37, Issue 2, 2011, Pages 177-192

  Hani, Ahmad Fadzil Mohamad ^a   Sathyamoorthy, Dinesh ^b   Sagayan Asirvadam, Vijanth ^a  

^a DEPARTMENT OF CHEMICAL ENGINEERING   (Malaysia)

^b Ministry of Defence   (Malaysia)

Author keywords

Curvature regions; Granulometric analysis; Lifting scheme; Multiscale digital elevation models (DEMs)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM IMPLEMENTATION; CURVATURE REGIONS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GRANULOMETRIC ANALYSIS; LIFTING SCHEMES; MULTI SCALE ANALYSIS; MULTISCALES; SURFACE ROUGHNESS PARAMETERS;

ALGORITHMS; DIGITAL INSTRUMENTS; FORESTRY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; METAL ANALYSIS; PARAMETER ESTIMATION; SURFACE PROPERTIES; SURVEYING;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

ALGORITHM; CURVATURE; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GRANULOMETRY; NUMERICAL METHOD; PIXEL; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; TERRAIN;

EID: 78751613866     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2010.05.021     Document Type: Article

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