Reconstruction of Megalake Chad using Shuttle Radar Topographic Mission data

Palaeogeography, Palaeoclimatology, Palaeoecology

Volumn 239, Issue 1-2, 2006, Pages 16-27

  Leblanc, Marc ^a   Favreau, Guillaume ^b   Maley, Jean ^c   Nazoumou, Yahaya ^d   Leduc, Christian ^b   Stagnitti, Frank ^e   van Oevelen, Peter J ^f   Delclaux, François ^b   Lemoalle, Jacques ^b  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c CNRS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITÉ ABDOU MOUMOUNI   (Niger)

^e DEAKIN UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^f EUROPEAN SPACE AGENCY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Africa; Climate change; DEM; GIS; Hydrology; Lake Chad; Paleohydrology; Paleolimnology; SRTM; Terrain analysis

Indexed keywords

DIGITAL ELEVATION MODEL; GIS; LANDSCAPE STRUCTURE; PALEOBIOGEOGRAPHY; QUATERNARY; RADAR; RECONSTRUCTION; SATELLITE DATA; SHORELINE; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING;

AFRICA; LAKE CHAD; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33747296829     PISSN: 00310182     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.palaeo.2006.01.003     Document Type: Article

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