Using thermal infrared imagery (TIR) for illustrating the submarine groundwater discharge into the eastern shoreline of the Dead Sea-Jordan

American Journal of Environmental Sciences

Volumn 4, Issue 6, 2008, Pages 693-700

  Akawwi, Emad ^a   Al Zouabi, Abdallah ^a   Kakish, Maher ^a   Koehn, Fredrich ^b   Sauter, Martin ^c  

^a AL BALQA APPLIED UNIVERSITY   (Jordan)

^b FEDERAL INSTITUTE FOR GEOSCIENCES AND NATURAL RESOURCES BGR   (Germany)

^c UNIVERSITY OF GÖTTINGEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Dead Sea; Discharge; Jordan; Thermal infrared

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349610287     PISSN: 1553345X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3844/ajessp.2008.693.700     Document Type: Article

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