Enhanced detection of wetland-stream connectivity using lidar

Wetlands

Volumn 32, Issue 3, 2012, Pages 461-473

  Lang, Megan ^a   McDonough, Owen ^b   McCarty, Greg ^a   Oesterling, Robert ^c   Wilen, Bill ^d  

^a AGRICULTURAL RESEARCH SERVICE   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND CENTER FOR ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF MARYLAND   (United States)

^d U S FISH AND WILDLIFE SERVICE   (United States)

Author keywords

Digital elevation model; National hydrography dataset; Significant nexus; Stream mapping

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CONNECTIVITY; DATA SET; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; LIDAR; MANAGEMENT PRACTICE; REGULATORY APPROACH; WETLAND;

EID: 84863987784     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-012-0279-7     Document Type: Article

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