An enhanced remote sensing procedure for material mapping in the western desert of Egypt: A tool for managing urban development

Natural Resources Research

Volumn 17, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 215-226

  Youssef, Ahmed Mohamed ^a  

^a Sohag University   (Egypt)

Author keywords

Decorrelation stretch; Material mapping; Principal component analysis; Quartz pebbles; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

EID: 54249124442     PISSN: 15207439     EISSN: 15738981     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11053-008-9080-y     Document Type: Article

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