Remote sensing for groundwater modelling in large semiarid areas: Lake Chad Basin, Africa

Hydrogeology Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2007, Pages 97-100

  Leblanc, Marc ^a   Favreau, Guillaume ^b   Tweed, Sarah ^a   Leduc, Christian ^b   Razack, Moumtaz ^c   Mofor, Linus ^d  

^a MONASH UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

^b INSTITUT DE RECHERCHE POUR LE DÉVELOPPEMENT   (France)

^c UNIVERSITÉ DE POITIERS   (France)

^d UNIVERSITY OF GLAMORGAN   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Geographic information system; Groundwater recharge; Groundwater surface water interaction; Numerical modelling; Satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

GIS; GROUNDWATER FLOW; NUMERICAL MODEL; RECHARGE; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEMIARID REGION;

AFRICA; LAKE CHAD; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA;

EID: 33846707630     PISSN: 14312174     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10040-006-0126-0     Document Type: Article

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