Through-water terrestrial laser scanning of gravel beds at the patch scale

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 37, Issue 4, 2012, Pages 411-421

  Smith, Mark ^a   Vericat, Damià ^b,c   Gibbins, Chris ^d  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

^d UNIVERSITY OF ABERDEEN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Fluvial geomorphology; Gravel surfaces; Patch scale; Roughness; Terrestrial laser scanning

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE SURFACES; BED ROUGHNESS; DEPOSITION PROCESS; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ECOLOGICAL RESPONSE; FIELD EXPERIMENT; FLOW HYDRAULICS; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVEL BED; GRAVEL SURFACES; HIGH RESOLUTION; LOW WATER; MEAN ERRORS; PATCH SCALE; POINT CLOUD DATA; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; THREE-DIMENSIONAL SURFACE; TOPOGRAPHIC DATA; WATER COLUMNS;

ANOXIC SEDIMENTS; ECOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVEL; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

BED ROUGHNESS; DEPOSITION; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENTRAINMENT; FLOW FIELD; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GRAVEL BED STREAM; MODEL VALIDATION; PARTICLE SIZE; PATCH DYNAMICS; PRECISION; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPATIAL VARIATION; THREE-DIMENSIONAL MODELING; TOPOGRAPHY; TURBULENT FLOW;

EID: 84858614920     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.2254     Document Type: Article

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