Characterising soil moisture in transport corridor environments using airborne LIDAR and CASI data

Hydrological Processes

Volumn 26, Issue 13, 2012, Pages 1925-1936

  Hardy, Andrew J ^a   Barr, Stuart L ^a   Mills, Jon P ^a   Miller, Pauline E ^a  

^a NEWCASTLE UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model; LIDAR; Soil moisture; Spectral imagery; Terrain analysis

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LIDAR; COMPACT AIRBORNE SPECTROGRAPHIC IMAGER; CORRELATION COEFFICIENT; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; INDICATOR VALUES; INTEGRATED MODELS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; PARTIAL LEAST SQUARES REGRESSION; POINT DATA; PORE-WATER PRESSURES; SLOPE INSTABILITY; SOIL MOISTURE DISTRIBUTION; SPECTRAL IMAGERY; TERRAIN ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHIC WETNESS INDEX; TRANSPORT CORRIDORS; TRANSPORT NETWORKS;

CIVIL ENGINEERING; EXCAVATION; FOUNDATIONS; INTEGRATION; OPTICAL RADAR; REMOTE SENSING; SUN;

SOIL MOISTURE;

COMPACT AIRBORNE SPECTROGRAPHIC IMAGER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EMBANKMENT; LIDAR; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SLOPE STABILITY; SOIL MOISTURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRAIN;

UNITED KINGDOM;

EID: 84862689649     PISSN: 08856087     EISSN: 10991085     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/hyp.8217     Document Type: Article

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