Potential of airborne laser scanning for geomorphologie feature and process detection and quantifications in high alpine mountains

Zeitschrift fur Geomorphologie

Volumn 55, Issue SUPPL. 2, 2011, Pages 83-104

  Bollmann, Erik ^a   Sailer, Rudolf ^a   Briese, Christian ^b   Stotter, Johann ^a   Fritzmann, Patrick ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF INNSBRUCK   (Austria)

^b VIENNA UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Austria)

Author keywords

Accuracy assessment; Airborne laser scanning; Alpine geomorphology; Glacial; High alpine mountains; Periglacial

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AIRBORNE SENSING; ALPINE ENVIRONMENT; CREVASSE; ERROR ANALYSIS; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIER; HOMOGENEITY; LASER METHOD; PERIGLACIAL ENVIRONMENT;

EID: 80755159578     PISSN: 03728854     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1127/0372-8854/2011/0055S2-0047     Document Type: Article

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