Remote sensing of suspended sediment concentration, flow velocity, and lake recharge in the Peace-Athabasca Delta, Canada

Water Resources Research

Volumn 45, Issue 11, 2009, Pages

  Pavelsky, Tamlin M ^a   Smith, Laurence C ^b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NORTH CAROLINA   (United States)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BIOGEOCHEMICAL DYNAMICS; COMPLEX FLOW; ECOLOGICAL FUNCTIONING; FIELD DATA; FIELD OBSERVATIONS; FINE SEDIMENTS; FLOOD-PLAINS; FLOODPLAIN LAKES; FLOW REVERSALS; IN-SITU; INFRARED REFLECTANCE; INFRARED REMOTE SENSING; NEPHELOMETRIC TURBIDITY; OAK RIDGE NATIONAL LABORATORY; PEACE-ATHABASCA DELTAS; RIVER FLOW; SATELLITE IMAGES; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT PROCESS; SPECIFIC CONDUCTIVITY; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT CONCENTRATIONS; VELOCITY-BASED; WATER SOURCE; WATER TEMPERATURES;

CONCENTRATION (PROCESS); FLOW PATTERNS; FLOW VELOCITY; LAKES; MARKUP LANGUAGES; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENTATION; STREAM FLOW; TIME MEASUREMENT; TURBIDITY; WATER LEVELS;

SEDIMENTOLOGY;

ASTER; CONCENTRATION (COMPOSITION); DELTA; FLOODPLAIN; FLOW PATTERN; FLOW VELOCITY; LAKE WATER; NEAR INFRARED; RECHARGE; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SPOT; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TURBIDITY; WATER TEMPERATURE;

ALBERTA; CANADA; PEACE-ATHABASCA DELTA;

EID: 72149106787     PISSN: 00431397     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1029/2008WR007424     Document Type: Article

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