River courses affected by landslides and implications for hazard assessment: A high resolution remote sensing case study in ne iraq-w iran

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 3, 2013, Pages 1024-1044

  Othman, Arsalan ^a,b   Gloaguen, Richard ^a,c  

^a TU BERGAKADEMIE FREIBERG   (Germany)

^b Iraq Geological Survey   (Iraq)

^c INSTITUTE OF ION BEAM PHYSICS AND MATERIALS RESEARCH   (Germany)

Author keywords

GIS; Hypsometry; Landslides; Remote sensing; River offset; Zagros

Indexed keywords

AREA OF INTEREST; DRAINAGE NETWORKS; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING; HYPSOMETRY; RIVER OFFSETS; TECTONIC CONTROL; ZAGROS;

FAULTING; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; HAZARDS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS;

LANDSLIDES;

EID: 84877808604     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5031024     Document Type: Article

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