Assessment of three mapping techniques to delineate lakes and ponds in a Canadian High Arctic wetland complex

Arctic

Volumn 59, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 283-293

  Brown, Laura ^a   Young, Kathy L ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

High Arctic hydrology; High Arctic lakes; LANDSAT; Landscape mapping; Ponds and wetlands; RADARSAT; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; ASSESSMENT METHOD; HYDROLOGY; LAKE; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MAPPING METHOD; POND; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE; WETLAND;

CANADA; CANADIAN ARCTIC; CRESWELL BAY; NORTH AMERICA; NUNAVUT; SOMERSET ISLAND;

EID: 33750174607     PISSN: 00040843     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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