The Development of Criteria for Recognizing and Identifying Slope Failure Forms as Depicted by Remote Sensor Returns.
Abstract
The study shows that the criteria developed from photographic images depicted by remote sensing photography from NASA's North Carolina Test Site is based largely on pattern, color contrast, and geometric form. Patterns are best reflected in the erosional forms of sheet wash, rill wash, and gullying, and in the mass wastage forms of soil creep and rock fall and rock creep. Color contrast is significant in differentiating all erosional and mass wastage forms of slope failure. The color contrast between an object and its background is frequently the only means of establishing recognition. Geometric form is relied upon most often in recognizing and establishing the identity of the rapid forms of mass wastage, i.e. slump, earth flow, debris slide and rock slide.
Document Details
- Document Type
- Technical Report
- Publication Date
- Jan 01, 1971
- Accession Number
- AD0750732
Entities
People
- Donald H. Poole
Organizations
- East Tennessee State University