Identification of homogenous regions in Gorganrood basin (Iran) for the purpose of regionalization

Natural Hazards

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 1427-1442

  Abdolhay, Atefeh ^a   Saghafian, Bahram ^b   Soom, Mohd Amin Mohd ^a   Ghazali, Abdul Halim B ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^b SOIL CONSERVATION AND WATERSHED MANAGEMENT RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Iran)

Author keywords

Fuzzy clustering; Homogeneous region; L moment; Self organizing map

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING WORLD; FLOOD; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; MAP; MODIS; NDVI; REGIONALIZATION; RUNOFF;

GOLESTAN; GORGAN RIVER; IRAN;

EID: 84858786254     PISSN: 0921030X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11069-011-0076-2     Document Type: Article

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