Detection of gullies in roughly textured terrain using airborne laser scanning data

ISPRS Journal of Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing

Volumn 66, Issue 5, 2011, Pages 564-578

  Baruch, Amit ^a   Filin, Sagi ^a  

^a TECHNION ISRAEL INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Airborne laser scanning; Detection; Gullies; LiDAR; Morphology

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LASER SCANNING; DETECTION MODELS; GULLIES; LASER SCANNING DATA; LINEAR ELEMENT; MULTI-SCALE APPROACHES; POINT DENSITY; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SURFACE FEATURE;

ERROR DETECTION; MORPHOLOGY; OPTICAL RADAR; REGIONAL PLANNING; SCANNING;

LASER APPLICATIONS;

AIRBORNE SENSOR; DETECTION METHOD; GULLY; LIDAR; MORPHOLOGY; OPTIMIZATION; REGIONAL DEVELOPMENT; SATELLITE DATA; TERRAIN; WATER LEVEL;

EID: 80052793584     PISSN: 09242716     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.isprsjprs.2011.03.001     Document Type: Article

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