Automatic extraction and size distribution of landslides in kurdistan region, NE Iraq

Remote Sensing

Volumn 5, Issue 5, 2013, Pages 2389-2410

  Othman, Arsalan A ^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

Automatic extraction; brightness Indicator; GIS; Landslide; Landslide index; Number size distribution; Remote sensing; Zagros

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATIC EXTRACTION; MOUNTAINOUS ENVIRONMENT; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; NUMBER-SIZE DISTRIBUTION; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; ROBUST ALGORITHM; SPECTRAL SIGNATURE; ZAGROS;

ALGORITHMS; EXTRACTION; GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS; LITHOLOGY; REMOTE SENSING; ROCK BURSTS; SIZE DISTRIBUTION;

LANDSLIDES;

EID: 84880379893     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs5052389     Document Type: Article

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