Palaeochannels of the Namoi River Floodplain, New South Wales, Australia: The use of multispectral Landsat imagery to highlight a Late Quaternary change in fluvial regime

Australian Geographer

Volumn 40, Issue 1, 2009, Pages 29-49

  Wray, Robert A L ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF WOLLONGONG   (Australia)

Author keywords

Australia; Fluvial; Geomorphology; Multispectral imagery; Namoi River; Palaeochannel; Quaternary; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

FLOODPLAIN; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; PALEOCHANNEL; QUATERNARY; REMOTE SENSING;

AUSTRALASIA; AUSTRALIA; NAMOI RIVER; NEW SOUTH WALES;

EID: 67650493934     PISSN: 00049182     EISSN: 14653311     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00049180802656952     Document Type: Article

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