Suitability of terrestrial laser scanning for studying surface roughness effects on concentrated flow erosion processes in rangelands

Catena

Volumn 87, Issue 3, 2011, Pages 398-407

  Eitel, Jan U H ^a   Williams, C Jason ^b   Vierling, Lee A ^a   Al Hamdan, Osama Z ^a,b   Pierson, Frederick B ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF IDAHO   (United States)

^b NORTHWEST WATERSHED RESEARCH CENTER   (United States)

Author keywords

Concentrated flow formation; Erosion prediction; Microtopography; Surface roughness; Terrestrial laser scanning; TLS

Indexed keywords

FLOW STABILITY; LASER; MICROTOPOGRAPHY; RANGELAND; REGRESSION ANALYSIS; SOIL EROSION; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

IDAHO; OREGON; UNITED STATES;

EID: 80052821697     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2011.07.009     Document Type: Article

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