Modelling terrain complexity

Lecture Notes in Geoinformation and Cartography

Volumn 0, Issue , 2008, Pages 159-176

  Lu, Huaxing ^a  

^a NONE

Author keywords

DEM; Terrain complexity; Terrain complexity index

Indexed keywords

SEMANTICS; SURVEYING;

CLASSIFIEDS; DEM; DIGITAL TERRAIN ANALYSIS; GEOMETRICAL INDICES; SEMANTIC INDEX; STATISTICAL INDICES; TERRAIN COMPLEXITY; TERRAIN COMPLEXITY INDEX; TERRAIN FEATURES;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 84920952887     PISSN: 18632246     EISSN: 18632351     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-3-540-77800-4_9     Document Type: Conference Paper

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