Remote sensing for the identification of coastal plumes: Case studies of Delaware Bay

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 8, 2009, Pages 2033-2048

  Jiang, Lide ^a   Yan, X H ^a,b   Klemas, V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF DELAWARE   (United States)

^b XIAMEN UNIVERSITY   (China)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED VERY HIGH RESOLUTION RADIOMETERS (AVHRR); BAND STRUCTURE; COASTAL ENGINEERING; INFRARED DETECTORS; OCEANOGRAPHY; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

FRONT STRUCTURES; GRADIENT IMAGES; INFRA-RED SENSOR; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEA-VIEWING WIDE FIELD-OF-VIEW SENSORS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR (SAR) IMAGES;

IMAGE ENHANCEMENT;

AVHRR; IDENTIFICATION METHOD; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODIS; PLUME; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEAWIFS; SYNTHETIC APERTURE RADAR;

CAPE HENLOPEN; DELAWARE; DELAWARE BAY; NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES;

EID: 67650269877     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802549211     Document Type: Article

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