Metrics for assessing snow surface roughness from Digital imagery

Water Resources Research

Volumn 46, Issue 4, 2009, Pages

  Fassnacht, S R ^a   Stednick, J D ^a   Deems, J S ^b   Corrao, M V ^a,c  

^a Veterinary Dentistry and Oral Surgery   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WASHINGTON   (United States)

^c Montana Department of Natural Resources and Conservation   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

FRACTAL DIMENSION; IMAGE PROCESSING; SNOW;

DIGITAL IMAGERY; MANUAL MEASUREMENTS; RANDOM ROUGHNESS; RANDOM SURFACES; ROUGHNESS INDEX; SURFACE CHARACTERISTICS; TWO-DIMENSIONAL ROUGHNESS; VARIOGRAM ANALYSIS;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

CRYSTAL; DIGITAL IMAGE; FRACTAL ANALYSIS; IMAGE RESOLUTION; SNOWPACK; SOIL SURFACE; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; VARIOGRAM;

EID: 79551678104     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR006986     Document Type: Article

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