Seismic-zonation of Port-au-Prince using pixel- and object-based imaging analysis methods on ASTER GDEM

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 77, Issue 9, 2011, Pages 909-921

  Yong, Alan ^a   Hough, Susan E ^a   Cox, Brady R ^b   Rathje, Ellen M ^c   Bachhuber, Jeff ^d   Dulberg, Ranon ^d   Hulslander, David ^e   Christiansen, Lisa ^f   Abrams, Michael J ^g  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

^b University of Arkansas   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^d Fugro Geoteam Limited   (United States)

^e ITT VIS   (United States)

^f CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^g CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

LANDFORMS; PIXELS; SEISMOLOGY;

ALLUVIAL FANS; GEOPHYSICAL MEASUREMENTS; IMAGING ANALYSIS; IMAGING METHOD; LOCAL TOPOGRAPHY; SEISMIC SITES; SEISMIC ZONATION; SITE CHARACTERIZATION;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ASTER; COMPARATIVE STUDY; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; MAPPING METHOD; MEASUREMENT METHOD; MOUNTAIN REGION; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SEISMIC ANISOTROPY; TOPOGRAPHY; ZONATION;

HAITI; PORT AU PRINCE;

EID: 80052760075     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14358/PERS.77.9.909     Document Type: Article

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