Morphological segmentation of physiographic features from DEM

A terrain can be segmented into three predominant physiographic features; mountains, basins and piedmont slopes. The objective of this paper is to develop a mathematical morphological based algorithm to segment the terrain of a digital elevation model (DEM) into the three predominant physiographic f...

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Main Authors: Sathymoorthy, D., Palanikumar, R., Sagar, B. S. D.
Format: Article
Published: TAYLOR & FRANCIS LTD 2007
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Online Access:http://shdl.mmu.edu.my/3200/