Facies discrimination in laterites using Landsat Thematic Mapper, ASTER and ALI data-examples from Eritrea and Arabia

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 27, Issue 12, 2006, Pages 2389-2409

  Andrews Deller, M E ^a  

^a OPEN UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

CLAY MINERALS; ECONOMICS; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGING TECHNIQUES; IRON; MAPPING; REMOTE SENSING; TECTONICS;

LATERITE FACIES; LATERITIC PALAEOSOLS; TOPOGRAPHY;

ROCKS;

ASTER; FACIES ANALYSIS; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LATERITE; MAPPING; PALEOSOL; REMOTE SENSING;

AFRICA; ARABIAN PENINSULA; ASIA; EAST AFRICA; ERITREA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33747121254     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160600586050     Document Type: Article

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