Lineament mapping for groundwater resource assessment: A comparison of digital synthetic aperture radar (SAR) imagery and stereoscopic large format camera (LFC) photographs in the Red Sea Hills, Sudan

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 18, Issue 7, 1997, Pages 1465-1482

  Koch, M ^a,c   Mather, P M ^b  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^c INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

PHOTOGRAPHY; PHOTOMAPPING; RADAR IMAGING; SPECIAL EFFECTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURES; WATER RESOURCES EXPLORATION;

LINEAMENT MAPPING;

GROUNDWATER RESOURCES;

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; FRACTURE PATTERN; GROUNDWATER; GROUNDWATER FLOW; LARGE FORMAT CAMERA; LINEAMENT; LINEAMENT MAPPING; SAR; SIR-C; WATER RESOURCE ASSESSMENT; WATER RESOURCES;

SUDAN, RED SEA HILLS;

EID: 0031148183     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/014311697218223     Document Type: Article

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