'You are HERE': Connecting the dots with airborne lidar for geomorphic fieldwork

Geomorphology

Volumn 200, Issue , 2013, Pages 172-183

  Roering, Joshua J ^a   Mackey, Benjamin H ^a   Marshall, Jill A ^a   Sweeney, Kristin E ^a   Deligne, Natalia I ^a   Booth, Adam M ^a   Handwerger, Alexander L ^a   Cerovski Darriau, Corina ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

Author keywords

Airborne lidar; Channels; Hillslopes; Landslides; Spatial Cognition

Indexed keywords

AIRBORNE SENSOR; CHANNEL; FIELDWORK; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HILLSLOPE; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LANDSLIDE; LIDAR; SPATIAL COGNITION;

EID: 84884985021     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2013.04.009     Document Type: Article

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