Semi-Automated Identification and Extraction of Geomorphological Features Using Digital Elevation Data

Developments in Earth Surface Processes

Volumn 15, Issue , 2011, Pages 297-335

  Seijmonsbergen, Arie Christoffel ^a   Hengl, Tomislav ^a   Anders, Niels Steven ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF AMSTERDAM   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Automated mapping; Classification; DEM; Geomorphometry; Land surface parameter; Pixel; Segmentation

Indexed keywords

EID: 80054907592     PISSN: 09282025     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1016/B978-0-444-53446-0.00010-0     Document Type: Chapter

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