Mathematical morphology in geomorphology and GISci

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Bibliographic Details
Main Author Daya Sagar, B. S.
Format eBook
LanguageEnglish
Published Boca Raton : CRC Press, 2013.
Subjects
Online AccessFull text
ISBN9781439872024
Physical Description516 p. : ill.

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Table of Contents:
  • 1. Introduction
  • 2. Mathematical morphology : an introduction
  • 3. Simulated, realistic digital elevation models, digital bathymetric maps, remotely sensed data, and thematic maps
  • 4. Feature extraction
  • 5. Terrestrial surface characterization : a quantitative perspective
  • 6. Size distributions, spatial heterogeneity, and scaling laws
  • 7. Morphological shape decomposition : scale-invariant but shape-dependent measures
  • 8. Granulometries, convexity measures, and geodesic spectrum for DEM analyses
  • 9. Synthetic examples to understand spatiotemporal dynamics of certain geo(morpho)logical processes
  • 10. Quantitative spatial relationships and spatial reasoning
  • 11. Derivation of spatially significant zones from a cluster
  • 12. Directional spatial relationship
  • 13. "Between" space
  • 14. Spatial interpolations.