EMERGENCY PLANNING IN NORTHERN ALGERIA BASED ON REMOTE SENSING DATA IN RESPECT TO TSUNAMI HAZARD PREPAREDNESS

LANDSAT ETM and Digital Elevation Model (DEM) data from the coastal areas of Algeria were investigated in order to detect traces of earlier tsunami events. Digital image processing methods used to produce morphometric maps - such as hillshade, slope, minimum and maximum curvature maps based on the S...

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Main Author: Barbara Theilen-Willige
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Tsunami Society International 2006-01-01
Series:Science of Tsunami Hazards
Subjects:
ETM
Online Access:http://tsunamisociety.org/251willige1.pdf