The rates and spatial patterns of annual riverbank erosion revealed through terrestrial laser-scanner surveys of the South River, Virginia

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 36, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 695-701

  O'Neal, Michael A ^a,b   Pizzuto, James E ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

Author keywords

Bank retreat; Digital terrain model; LiDAR; River erosion

Indexed keywords

ANNUAL RATES; ANNUAL SURVEYS; BANK EROSION; BANK RETREAT; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; EARTH MODELS; FORESTED BANKS; LENGTH SCALE; LIDAR; MERCURY LOADINGS; MODEL COMPARISON; PARTIAL AUTOCORRELATION; PROFILE DATA; RIVER EROSION; RIVER SYSTEMS; RIVERBANK EROSION; SPATIAL DATA; SPATIAL PATTERNS; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNERS; VIRGINIA;

DEBRIS; EROSION; LANDFORMS; MEASUREMENT ERRORS; MERCURY (METAL); OPTICAL RADAR; RIVERS; SCANNING; SURVEYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL;

RIVER POLLUTION;

AUTOCORRELATION; BANK EROSION; BEDROCK; DEBRIS FLOW; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; EROSION RATE; GRAVEL BED STREAM; LIDAR; MERCURY (ELEMENT); RIVER BANK; SCOUR;

SOUTH RIVER [VIRGINIA]; UNITED STATES; VIRGINIA;

EID: 79953784843     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2098     Document Type: Article

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