Estimating historic lake stages from one-time snapshot, the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission of 2000.

Autor: Kon Joon Bhang, Schwartz, Frank W., Seok-Soon Park
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Zdroj: Hydrological Processes; 6/30/2010, Vol. 24 Issue 13, p1834-1843, 10p, 1 Chart, 8 Graphs
Abstrakt: The article explores the historic lake stages in the Prairie Pothole Region (PPR) of North America. It notes that several image-processing techniques were used, with the Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM) data in January 2000, to estimate lake stages. It mentions that the Canny Edge Detector (CED), coupled with the data, provided outstanding accuracy in the estimation.
Databáze: Complementary Index