From experimental plots to experimental landscapes: Topography, erosion and deposition in sub-humid badlands from Structure-from-Motion photogrammetry

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 40, Issue 12, 2015, Pages 1656-1671

  Smith, Mark William ^a   Vericat, Damià ^b,c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LEEDS   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^c CENTRE TECNOLÒGIC FORESTAL DE CATALUNYA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Badlands; Sediment budget; Structure from Motion (SfM); Terrestrial Laser Scanning (TLS); Topographic survey

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BUDGET CONTROL; CATCHMENTS; EROSION; FERTILIZERS; LANDFORMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; MEAN SQUARE ERROR; SEEBECK EFFECT; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURFACE TOPOGRAPHY; SURVEYS; TOPOGRAPHY; UNMANNED AERIAL VEHICLES (UAV); UNMANNED VEHICLES;

BADLANDS; SEDIMENT BUDGETS; STRUCTURE FROM MOTION; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TOPOGRAPHIC SURVEYS;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

BADLANDS; COMPLEX TERRAIN; DEPOSITION; EROSION; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL RESPONSE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SEDIMENT BUDGET; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 84941934685     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3747     Document Type: Article

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