The delineation of paleo-shorelines in the lake manyara basin using terraSAR-X data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 3, 2014, Pages 2195-2212

  Bachofer, Felix ^a   Quénéhervé, Geraldine ^a   Märker, Michael ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TÜBINGEN   (Germany)

^b HEIDELBERG ACADEMY OF SCIENCES AND HUMANITIES   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF FLORENCE   (Italy)

Author keywords

Canny filter; Edge detection; Paleo lake; Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR); TerraSAR X

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS; EDGE DETECTION; IMAGE PROCESSING; SATELLITES; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR; TOOLS;

CANNY EDGE DETECTORS; CANNY FILTER; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTIONS; MORPHOLOGICAL STRUCTURES; PALEO-LAKE; TERRASAR-X; VERTEBRATE FOSSILS;

LAKES;

EID: 84896940401     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6032195     Document Type: Article

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