Survey and classification of large woody debris (LWD) in streams using generated low-cost geomatic products

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 11770-11790

  Ortega Terol, Damian ^a   Moreno, Miguel A ^b   Hernández López, David ^b   Rodríguez Gonzálvez, Pablo ^c  

^a Jucar Hydrographic Confederation ^*  (Spain)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CASTILLA LA MANCHA   (Spain)

^c UNIVERSITY OF SALAMANCA   (Spain)

Author keywords

FOSSGIS; Large woody debris; Orthoimage; Photogrammetry; QGIS python plugin; River channel management

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920072434     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61211770     Document Type: Article

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