Automatic delineation of functional river reach boundaries for river research and applications

River Research and Applications

Volumn 28, Issue 10, 2012, Pages 1708-1725

  Parker, C ^a   Clifford, N J ^b   Thorne, C R ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF THE WEST OF ENGLAND   (United Kingdom)

^b KING'S COLLEGE LONDON   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Boundary hunting; Integrated catchment management; Reach; RHS; River management; Sediment transport; ST:REAM; Zonation

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CATCHMENT; HABITAT RESTORATION; INTEGRATED APPROACH; NUMERICAL MODEL; QUALITATIVE ANALYSIS; RESEARCH WORK; RIVER MANAGEMENT; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; WELL LOGGING; ZONATION;

EID: 84871384229     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.1568     Document Type: Article

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