Identifying the effects of the Gulf War on the geomorphic features of Kuwait by remote sensing and GIS

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 64, Issue 7, 1998, Pages 739-747

  Koch, Magaly ^a,b   El Baz, Farouk ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INSTITUTE OF EARTH SCIENCES JAUME ALMERA   (Spain)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

GEOMORPHOLOGY; GIS; GULF WAR; REMOTE SENSING;

KUWAIT;

EID: 0031901844     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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