Passive optical remote sensing of river channel morphology and in-stream habitat: Physical basis and feasibility

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 93, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 493-510

  Legleiter, Carl J ^a,b   Roberts, Dar A ^a   Marcus, W Andrew ^c   Fonstad, Mark A ^d  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

^b Yellowstone Ecological Research Center   (United States)

^c UNIVERSITY OF OREGON   (United States)

^d TEXAS STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Depth; In stream habitat; Radiative transfer model; Remote sensing; River channels

Indexed keywords

LINEAR TRANSFORM METHOD; QUANTITATIVE TECHNIQUES; SURFACE TURBULENCE;

MAPPING; MARINE APPLICATIONS; OPTICAL PROPERTIES; RIVERS; SCATTERING; SENSITIVITY ANALYSIS; SIGNAL PROCESSING;

REMOTE SENSING;

CHANNEL MORPHOLOGY; HABITAT STRUCTURE; OPTICAL PROPERTY; RADIATIVE TRANSFER; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER CHANNEL;

NORTH AMERICA; UNITED STATES; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD; YELLOWSTONE NATIONAL PARK;

EID: 7444267996     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2004.07.019     Document Type: Article

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