Use of terrestrial photogrammetry based on structure-from-motion for mass balance estimation of a small glacier in the Italian alps

Earth Surface Processes and Landforms

Volumn 40, Issue 13, 2015, Pages 1791-1802

  Piermattei, Livia ^a   Carturan, Luca ^a   Guarnieri, Alberto ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF PADOVA   (Italy)

Author keywords

Digital terrain model (DTM); Digital terrestrial photogrammetry; Glacier mass balance; Structure from motion multi view stereo (SfM MVS); Terrestrial laser scanning (TLS)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; CAMERAS; COMPUTER VISION; DEBRIS; IMAGE MATCHING; IMAGE TEXTURE; LANDFORMS; LASER APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL RADAR; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; SCANNING; SEEBECK EFFECT; SOFTWARE TESTING; STEEL BEAMS AND GIRDERS; STEREO IMAGE PROCESSING; STEREO VISION; SURFACE ANALYSIS; SURVEYS; THREE DIMENSIONAL COMPUTER GRAPHICS;

DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; GLACIER MASS BALANCE; MULTI-VIEW STEREO; TERRESTRIAL LASER SCANNING; TERRESTRIAL PHOTOGRAMMETRIES;

SURVEYING INSTRUMENTS;

ALGORITHM; DIGITAL TERRAIN MODEL; ESTIMATION METHOD; GLACIER; LASER METHOD; LIDAR; MASS BALANCE; PHOTOGRAMMETRY;

ALPS; ITALY;

EID: 84943356924     PISSN: 01979337     EISSN: 10969837     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1002/esp.3756     Document Type: Article

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