Typology of oases in northern Oman based on Landsat and SRTM imagery and geological survey data

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 112, Issue 3, 2008, Pages 1181-1195

  Luedeling, Eike ^a   Buerkert, Andreas ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF KASSEL   (Germany)

Author keywords

Geology; Hydrology; Landsat imagery; Normalized Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI); Oasis agriculture; Shuttle Radar Topography Mission (SRTM)

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHMS; IMAGE PROCESSING; REMOTE SENSING; VEGETATION; WATER;

NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX (NDVI); SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION (SRTM);

WATER RESOURCES;

AGRICULTURE; ALGORITHM; CROP; GEOLOGICAL SURVEY; HYDROLOGY; IMAGE PROCESSING; LANDSAT; NDVI; OASIS; REMOTE SENSING; TYPOLOGY;

ASIA; EURASIA; MIDDLE EAST; OMAN;

PHOENIX DACTYLIFERA;

EID: 39249085867     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2007.08.007     Document Type: Article

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