Mapping exposed and buried drainage systems using remote sensing in the Negev Desert, Israel

Geomorphology

Volumn 61, Issue 3-4, 2004, Pages 239-250

  Blumberg, Dan G ^a   Neta, Tali ^a   Margalit, Nir ^a   Lazar, Michael ^b   Freilikher, Valentin ^c  

^a BEN GURION UNIVERSITY OF THE NEGEV   (Israel)

^b TEL AVIV UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

^c BAR ILAN UNIVERSITY   (Israel)

Author keywords

Buried channels; Drainage system; Dune fields; Egypt; GPR; Israel; Negev; Quaternary; Radar; Reflectance; Remote sensing; SAR; Sinai

Indexed keywords

BURIED STRUCTURE; GROUND PENETRATING RADAR; INFRARED IMAGERY; MAPPING METHOD; PALEOCHANNEL; QUATERNARY; REMOTE SENSING; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

ASIA; EURASIA; ISRAEL; MIDDLE EAST; NEGEV; SOUTHERN DISTRICT;

EID: 3142747639     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2003.12.008     Document Type: Article

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