Using a GIS filtering approach to replicate patterns of glacial erosion

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 408-418

  Jansson, K N ^a   Stroeven, A P ^a   Alm, G ^a   Dahlgren, K I T ^b   Glasser, N F ^c   Goodfellow, B W ^d  

^a STOCKHOLM UNIVERSITY   (Sweden)

^b STATOIL   (Norway)

^c ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d STANFORD UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS filtering; Glacial erosion; Northern Scandinavia; Relief development

Indexed keywords

ANCHOR POINT; DATA SETS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FILTERING TECHNIQUE; GENERIC DATA; GIS FILTERING; GLACIAL CYCLES; GLACIAL EROSION; ICE SHEET; KEY CONTROL; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; LANDSCAPE RECONSTRUCTION; MOUNTAINOUS AREA; NORTHERN SCANDINAVIA; RELIEF DEVELOPMENT; SLOPE ANGLES; SMALL-SCALE IRREGULARITIES; SPATIAL PATTERNS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STUDY AREAS; TEMPORAL RESOLUTION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; GLACIAL GEOLOGY; LANDFORMS;

EROSION;

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GIS; GLACIAL EROSION; ICE SHEET; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

NORWAY; SWEDEN;

EID: 79951836224     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2056     Document Type: Article

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