HAND TERRAIN DESCRIPTOR FOR REGIONAL SCALE MAPPING OF AMAZON TERRA FIRME ECO-HYDROLOGICAL UNITS
The HAND (Height Above the Nearest Drainage), a quantitative topographic descriptor, is used to classify terrain in a manner that is related to local soil water conditions, providing hydrological meaning to the SRTM DEM. In this paper, we compare performance of using the HAND grid instead of the SRT...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Universidade Federal de Uberlândia
2015-07-01
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| Series: | Revista Brasileira de Cartografia |
| Online Access: | http://www.seer.ufu.br/index.php/revistabrasileiracartografia/article/view/44657 |