Derivation of groundwater flow-paths based on semi-automatic extraction of lineaments from remote sensing data

Hydrology and Earth System Sciences

Volumn 15, Issue 8, 2011, Pages 2665-2678

  Mallast, U ^a,b   Gloaguen, R ^b   Geyer, S ^a   Rudiger T ^a   Siebert, C ^a  

^a HELMHOLTZ CENTRE FOR ENVIRONMENTAL RESEARCH UFZ   (Germany)

^b TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT CRITERIA; AUXILIARY INFORMATION; COMBINED METHOD; DEAD SEA; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EUCLIDEAN DISTANCE; FLOW PATH; GROUND WATER MOVEMENT; GROUNDWATER MODELS; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; IN-SITU DATA; LINEAR FILTERING; OBJECT BASED; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SEMI-AUTOMATICS; SEMIAUTOMATIC METHODS; STRONG CORRELATION; STRUCTURAL FEATURE; WELL DATA;

CATCHMENTS; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; RATING; REMOTE SENSING;

STRUCTURAL GEOLOGY;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GROUNDWATER FLOW; GROUNDWATER-SEAWATER INTERACTION; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; LINEARITY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA;

DEAD SEA; ISRAEL; PALESTINE;

EID: 80054098610     PISSN: 10275606     EISSN: 16077938     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/hess-15-2665-2011     Document Type: Article

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