Characterisation of valleys from DEMs

18th World IMACS Congress and MODSIM 2009 - International Congress on Modelling and Simulation: Interfacing Modelling and Simulation with Mathematical and Computational Sciences, Proceedings

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 2014-2020

  Wang, D ^a,b   Laffan, S W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

^b China Aero Geophysical Survey and Remote Sensing Centre for Land and Resources   (China)

Author keywords

Digital Elevation Model (DEM); Morphometric Features; Spatial Analysis; Terrain Analysis; Valleys

Indexed keywords

CATCHMENTS;

ALTERNATE APPROACHES; DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; ENVIRONMENTAL MODELLERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PROCESS; NUMBER OF METHODS; OPERATIONAL SCALE; QUADRATIC FUNCTION; TERRAIN COMPLEXITY;

LANDFORMS;

EID: 85086231429     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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