Geomorphic features extraction from high-resolution topography: Landslide crowns and bank erosion

Natural Hazards

Volumn 61, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 65-83

  Tarolli, Paolo ^a,b   Sofia, Giulia ^a   Dalla Fontana, Giancarlo ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

^b INSTITUTE OF OCEANOGRAPHY   (Greece)

Author keywords

Bank erosion; DTM; Feature extraction; High resolution topography; Landform curvature; Landslide crowns

Indexed keywords

BANK EROSION; CHANNEL FLOW; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DEBRIS FLOW; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GEOMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; PATTERN RECOGNITION; REMOTE SENSING; SLOPE FAILURE; TOPOGRAPHY;

ALPS;

EID: 84856379434     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-010-9695-2     Document Type: Article

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