Assessing ecological risk through automated drainage extraction and watershed delineation

Ecological Informatics

Volumn 6, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 325-331

  Mantelli, Luiz Rogério ^a   Barbosa, Jomar Magalhães ^a   Bitencourt, Marisa Dantas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SÃO PAULO   (Brazil)

Author keywords

Digital Elevation Model; Drainage extraction; Ecological decision making; Ecological risk assessment; Watershed

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; ASTER; DATA SET; DECISION MAKING; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRAINAGE; ECOLOGICAL APPROACH; ERROR ANALYSIS; FREQUENCY ANALYSIS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIS; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; MAPPING METHOD; MORPHOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; RESOLUTION; RESOURCE MANAGEMENT; RESOURCE USE; RISK FACTOR; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; WATERSHED;

ATLANTIC FOREST; BRAZIL;

EID: 80051800334     PISSN: 15749541     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ecoinf.2011.04.003     Document Type: Article

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