Automated mapping of landforms through the application of supervised classification to lidar-derived dems and the identification of earthquake ruptures

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 38, Issue 23, 2017, Pages 7196-7219

  Wei, Zhanyu ^a   He, Honglin ^a   Hao, Haijian ^a   Gao, Wei ^a  

^a INSTITUTE OF GEOLOGY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

AUTOMATION; FAULTING; GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDFORMS; MAPPING; PROFESSIONAL ASPECTS; SUPERVISED LEARNING; SURVEYING;

AUTOMATED CLASSIFICATION; CHARACTERIZATION STUDIES; CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; LANDFORM CLASSIFICATION; LIGHT DETECTION AND RANGING; SUPERVISED CLASSIFICATION;

OPTICAL RADAR;

EID: 85041460595     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2017.1372861     Document Type: Article

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