Coastline and mudbank monitoring in French Guiana: Contributions of radar and optical satellite imagery

Canadian Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 2, 2004, Pages 109-122

  Baghdadi, Nicolas ^a   Gratiot, Nicolas ^b   Lefebvre, Jean Pierre ^b   Oliveros, Carlos ^a   Bourguignon, Anne ^a  

^a BRGM   (France)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

COASTAL ENGINEERING; DECISION MAKING; ECOSYSTEMS; RADAR IMAGING; RADIOMETERS; SATELLITE NAVIGATION AIDS; SEDIMENTS; SURFACE ROUGHNESS; WATER;

COASTLINE; MUDBANK MIGRATION; MUDBANK MONITORING; TIDAL HEIGHT;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 2542468935     PISSN: 07038992     EISSN: 17127971     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.5589/m03-059     Document Type: Article

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