Landscape similarity, retrieval, and machine mapping of physiographic units

Geomorphology

Volumn 221, Issue , 2014, Pages 104-112

  Jasiewicz, Jaroslaw ^a,b   Netzel, Pawel ^a,c   Stepinski, Tomasz F ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CINCINNATI   (United States)

^b ADAM MICKIEWICZ UNIVERSITY   (Poland)

^c UNIVERSITY OF WROC AW   (Poland)

Author keywords

Landscape search; Landscape similarity; Pattern recognition; Physiographic mapping; Supervised classification; Web application

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HISTOGRAM; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; NUMERICAL MODEL; PATTERN RECOGNITION; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TOPOGRAPHY; WORLD WIDE WEB;

POLAND;

EID: 84903202003     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2014.06.011     Document Type: Article

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