Detecting rock glacier flow structures using Gabor filters and IKONOS imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 125, Issue , 2012, Pages 227-237

  Brenning, Alexander ^a   Long, Shilei ^a   Fieguth, Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Debris covered glacier; Flow patterns; Gabor filter; Multispectral remote sensing; Rock glacier; Terrain analysis; Texture filters

Indexed keywords

DEBRIS-COVERED GLACIER; MULTISPECTRAL REMOTE SENSING; ROCK GLACIERS; TERRAIN ANALYSIS; TEXTURE FILTERS;

DEBRIS; FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW STRUCTURE; GABOR FILTERS; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; PERMAFROST; REMOTE SENSING; ROCKS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUPPORT VECTOR MACHINES;

TEXTURES;

CLASSIFICATION; CRYOSPHERE; DETECTION METHOD; EROSION; FILTER; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW STRUCTURE; GEOMORPHOLOGY; GLACIER FLOW; IKONOS; MAPPING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PANCHROMATIC IMAGE; PERMAFROST; ROCK GLACIER; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TERRAIN; THERMOKARST;

ANDES; CHILE;

EID: 84865566062     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.07.005     Document Type: Article

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