Monitoring sediment source areas in a debris-flow catchment using terrestrial laser scanning

Catena

Volumn 123, Issue , 2014, Pages 23-36

  Blasone, Giacomo ^a   Cavalli, Marco ^b   Marchi, Lorenzo ^b   Cazorzi, Federico ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF UDINE   (Italy)

^b CNR   (Italy)

Author keywords

Debris flow; DEM of Difference (DoD); Erosion; Geomorphic change detection; Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENT; DEBRIS FLOW; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; EROSION RATE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; FUZZY MATHEMATICS; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; MONITORING SYSTEM; SCANNER; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; VEGETATION COVER; AERIAL PHOTOGRAPH; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LASER METHOD; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; TERRAIN; TERRESTRIAL DEPOSIT;

ALPS; FRIULI-VENEZIA GIULIA; ITALY; MOSCARDO TORRENT; UDINE;

EID: 84905008687     PISSN: 03418162     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.catena.2014.07.001     Document Type: Article

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