Evidence for a large extended paleolake in the eastern Sahara as revealed by spaceborne radar lab images

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 61, Issue 3, 1997, Pages 437-440

  Pachur, H J ^a   Rottinger, F ^a  

^a FREIE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ECOSYSTEMS; GEOGRAPHICAL REGIONS; HYDROLOGY; IMAGE RECONSTRUCTION; LAKES; PRECIPITATION (METEOROLOGY); RADAR IMAGING; RAIN; SEDIMENTS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

LACUSTRINE; PALAEOHYDROLOGY; PALEOLAKE; WEST NUBIAN LAKE; WET PHASE; WETLANDS;

REMOTE SENSING;

HOLOCENE; LACUSTRINE SEDIMENT; PALAEOCLIMATE; PALAEOLAKE; RADAR IMAGE; SAR;

AFRICA, SAHARA;

EID: 0031228843     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0034-4257(96)00210-6     Document Type: Article

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