Influence of resolution on slope in areas with different topographic characteristics

Computers and Geosciences

Volumn 41, Issue , 2012, Pages 156-168

  Wang, Chunmei ^a,c   Yang, Qinke ^b   Guo, Weiling ^a,c   Liu, Hongyan ^d   Jupp, David ^e   Li, Rui ^a   Zhang, Hongming ^d  

^a INSTITUTE OF SOIL AND WATER CONSERVATION   (China)

^b NORTHWEST UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c UNIVERSITY OF CHINESE ACADEMY OF SCIENCES   (China)

^d NORTHWEST A F UNIVERSITY   (China)

^e CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Resolution; Semi variogram; Slope; Theoretical slope distribution model

Indexed keywords

CORRELATION DISTANCE; CORRELATION LENGTHS; DIFFERENT TERRAINS; DRIVING PARAMETERS; GEOSTATISTICAL ANALYSIS; GEOSTATISTICAL METHOD; MULTI-RESOLUTIONS; RATE OF CHANGE; SCALING EFFECTS; SEMIVARIOGRAMS; SLOPE; SLOPE DISTRIBUTION; SLOPE SURFACES; SPATIAL FREQUENCY; STANDARD DEVIATION; STUDY AREAS; THEORETICAL MODELS; TOTAL VARIANCE;

LANDFORMS; OPTICAL RESOLVING POWER;

STATISTICS;

GEOSTATISTICS; SCALE EFFECT; SLOPE DYNAMICS; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRAIN; THEORETICAL STUDY; VARIOGRAM;

CHINA;

EID: 84857998750     PISSN: 00983004     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.cageo.2011.10.028     Document Type: Article

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