Delineating and defining the boundaries of an active landslide in the rainforest of Puerto Rico using a combination of airborne and terrestrial LIDAR data

Landslides

Volumn 10, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 503-513

  Wang, Guoquan ^a,b   Joyce, James ^c   Phillips, David ^d   Shrestha, Ramesh ^a,b   Carter, William ^b  

^a University of Houston   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HOUSTON   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PUERTO RICO   (Puerto Rico)

^d University of Connecticut   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne LIDAR; GPS; Landslide; Rainforest; TLS

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE LIDAR; AIRBORNE LIDAR DATA; GROUND-BASED LIDARS; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; RAINFOREST; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TLS;

DEFORMATION; GLOBAL POSITIONING SYSTEM; LANDSLIDES; SENSORS; SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

OPTICAL RADAR;

CANOPY; GPS; LANDSLIDE; LIDAR; RAINFOREST; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SLIDING; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TREE;

PUERTO RICO;

EID: 84883824508     PISSN: 1612510X     EISSN: 16125118     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10346-013-0400-x     Document Type: Article

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