Geomorphometric feature analysis using morphometric parameterization and artificial neural networks

This paper presents a semi-automatic method using an unsupervised neural network to analyze geomorphometric features as landform elements. The Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) provided detai ...

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