Automated segmentation of hillslope profiles across ridges and valleys using a digital elevation model

Geomorphology

Volumn 177-178, Issue , 2012, Pages 167-177

  Matsuura, Toshiya ^a   Aniya, Masamu ^b  

^a FORESTRY AND FOREST PRODUCTS RESEARCH INSTITUTE   (Japan)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

DEM; Fluvial landscape; Morphological mapping; Slope profile segmentation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; FLUVIAL LANDFORM; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE; SEGMENTATION; VALLEY;

JAPAN;

EID: 84868198861     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.07.024     Document Type: Article

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