Monitoring coastal evolution and associated littoral hazards of French Guiana shoreline with radar images;Suivi des évolutions côtières et des risques littoraux en Guyane française par imagerie radar à synthèse d'ouverture

Comptes Rendus - Geoscience

Volumn 337, Issue 13, 2005, Pages 1140-1153

  Trebossen, Hervé ^a,b   Deffontaines, Benoît ^a   Classeau, Nicolas ^a   Kouame, Jacob ^a   Rudant, Jean Paul ^a  

^a UNIVERSITÉ GUSTAVE EIFFEL   (France)

^b Section de Géodésie Géophysique   (France)

Author keywords

Coastal erosion; French Guiana; Nautical chart; SAR remote sensing; Sedimentation; Shoreline

Indexed keywords

COASTAL EVOLUTION; LITTORAL ENVIRONMENT; MONITORING; NATURAL HAZARD;

FRENCH GUIANA; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

EID: 26944488955     PISSN: 16310713     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.crte.2005.05.013     Document Type: Article

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