Assessment of landslide age, landslide persistence and human impact using airborne laser scanning digital terrain models

Geografiska Annaler, Series A: Physical Geography

Volumn 94, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 135-156

  Bell, Rainer ^a   Petschko, Helene ^a   Röhrs, Matthias ^b   Dix, Andreas ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b INSTITUTE FOR RENEWABLE ENERGY   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BAMBERG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Airborne LiDAR; Human activity; Landslide persistence; Lower Austria; Orthophoto; Swabian Alb

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SURVEY; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; LIDAR; MAGNITUDE; ORTHOPHOTO; PERSISTENCE; SEDIMENT BUDGET;

AUSTRIA; BADEN-WURTTEMBERG; GERMANY; LOWER AUSTRIA; SWABIAN ALB;

EID: 84858806093     PISSN: 04353676     EISSN: 14680459     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1111/j.1468-0459.2012.00454.x     Document Type: Article

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