Management Applications of Optical Remote Sensing in the Active River Channel

Fluvial Remote Sensing for Science and Management

Volumn , Issue , 2012, Pages 19-41

  Andrew Marcus, W ^a   Fonstad, Mark A ^a   Legleiter, Carl J ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WYOMING   (United States)

Author keywords

Active channel; Airborne; Bathymetric mapping techniques; Graininess; Hydraulically assisted bathymetry; LiDAR; Logistics; Lumper; Morphologic units; Remote sensing; SAV; Splitter; Turbidity

Indexed keywords

BATHYMETRY; LOGISTICS; OPTICAL RADAR; TURBIDITY;

ACTIVE CHANNELS; AIRBORNE; GRAININESS; LUMPER; MAPPING TECHNIQUES; MORPHOLOGIC UNITS; SPLITTER;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84886127326     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1002/9781119940791.ch2     Document Type: Chapter

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