Monitoring changing position of coastlines using Thematic Mapper imagery, an example from the Nile Delta

Geomorphology

Volumn 29, Issue 1-2, 1999, Pages 93-105

  White, Kevin ^a   El Asmar, Hesham M ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF READING   (United Kingdom)

^b Damietta Faculty of Science   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Coastal sedimentation; Coastlines; Geographic information systems; Littoral erosion; Nile Delta; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

COASTAL EVOLUTION; COASTAL ZONE MANAGEMENT; THEMATIC MAPPING;

EGYPT;

EID: 0032697203     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/S0169-555X(99)00008-2     Document Type: Article

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