Modeling riparian zones utilizing dems, flood height data, digital soil data and National Wetland Inventory VIA GIS

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing Annual Conference 2011

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages 1-11

  Abood, Sinan ^a   Maclean, Ann ^a  

^a MICHIGAN TECHNOLOGICAL UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

GIS spatial model; Riparian zone; Variable width buffer

Indexed keywords

BOUNDARY DELINEATION; FIXED WIDTH; FLOOD PLAINS; GIS-SPATIAL MODELS; HIGH VARIABILITY; PRIMARY FACTORS; RIPARIAN SOIL; RIPARIAN ZONES; SAMPLING TECHNIQUE; SOIL CHARACTERISTICS; SOIL DATA; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS; VARIABLE WIDTH; WATER COURSE;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); ECOSYSTEMS; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; VEGETATION; WETLANDS;

FLOODS;

EID: 84868618991     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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