Technical note: Use of remote sensing for landslide studies in Europe

Natural Hazards and Earth System Science

Volumn 13, Issue 2, 2013, Pages 299-309

  Tofani, V ^a   Segoni, S ^a   Agostini, A ^a   Catani, F ^a   Casagli, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; GEOLOGICAL MAPPING; LANDSLIDE; QUESTIONNAIRE SURVEY; RADAR IMAGERY; REMOTE SENSING; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EUROPE;

EID: 84873680957     PISSN: 15618633     EISSN: 16849981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5194/nhess-13-299-2013     Document Type: Article

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