Mapping river depth from publicly available aerial images

River Research and Applications

Volumn 29, Issue 6, 2013, Pages 760-780

  Legleiter, C J ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Bathymetry; Depth retrieval; In stream habitat; Monitoring; Multispectral; Remote sensing; River morphology

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ALGORITHM; BATHYMETRY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER SYSTEM; SENSOR; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STREAM;

EID: 84880045394     PISSN: 15351459     EISSN: 15351467     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/rra.2560     Document Type: Article

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