Innovative analysis and use of high-resolution DTMs for quantitative interrogation of Earth-surface processes

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 1400-1403

  Passalacqua, Paola ^a   Hillier, John ^b   Tarolli, Paolo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TEXAS AT AUSTIN   (United States)

^b LOUGHBOROUGH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^c UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital terrain models; Feature extraction; Lidar

Indexed keywords

DATA FUSION; FEATURE EXTRACTION; OPTICAL RADAR;

CONFERENCE SESSIONS; DATA FUSION TECHNIQUE; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; EARTH-SURFACE PROCESS; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SPATIO-TEMPORAL SCALE; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION;

DATA HANDLING;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSCAPE EVOLUTION; LIDAR; PATTERN RECOGNITION;

EID: 84905560389     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3616     Document Type: Article

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