Could surface roughness be a poor proxy for landslide age? Results from the Swabian Alb, Germany

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 39, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1697-1704

  Goetz, Jason N ^a,b   Bell, Rainer ^a   Brenning, Alexander ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF VIENNA   (Austria)

^b UNIVERSITY OF WATERLOO   (Canada)

Author keywords

Landslide age; LiDAR mapping; Surface roughness; Swabian Alb

Indexed keywords

EIGENVALUES AND EIGENFUNCTIONS; LAND USE; LANDSLIDES; OPTICAL RADAR;

ANTHROPOGENIC FACTORS; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; MORPHOLOGY CHANGES; ROUGHNESS MEASURE; SPATIAL RESOLUTION; STANDARD DEVIATION; SWABIAN ALB; WEAK CORRELATION;

SURFACE ROUGHNESS;

EID: 84916596729     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3630     Document Type: Letter

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