Use of radar data to delineate palaeodrainage flow directions in the Selima Sand Sheet, eastern Sahara

Photogrammetric Engineering and Remote Sensing

Volumn 66, Issue 6, 2000, Pages 745-753

  Robinson, Cordula ^a   El Baz, Farouk ^a   Ozdogan, Mutlu ^a   Ledwith, Michael ^a   Blanco, Daniel ^a   Oakley, Susan ^a   Inzana, Jennifer ^a  

^a BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DRAINAGE; PALEOHYDROLOGY; RADAR IMAGERY; SAND;

AFRICA;

EID: 0034038679     PISSN: 00991112     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Review

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