Assessment of multiresolution segmentation for delimiting drumlins in digital elevation models

Geomorphology

Volumn 214, Issue , 2014, Pages 452-464

  Eisank, Clemens ^a   Smith, Mike ^b   Hillier, John ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SALZBURG   (Austria)

^b KINGSTON UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geomorphometry; Land surface segmentation; Object based image analysis (OBIA); Region growing; Supervised; Synthetic drumlins

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; DRUMLIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MORPHOMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; SEGMENTATION;

EID: 84898832826     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.02.028     Document Type: Article

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