Amazon river time series of surface sediment concentration from MODIS

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 10, 2011, Pages 2659-2679

  Kilham, Nina E ^a   Roberts, Dar ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

RADIOMETERS; RIVERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENTATION; SURFICIAL SEDIMENTS;

COMPOSITE SURFACE; DEPTH INTEGRATED; FIELD MEASUREMENT; FLOODPLAIN LAKES; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER DATUM; SIMILAR PATTERN; SURFACE SEDIMENTS; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT LOADS;

SUSPENDED SEDIMENTS;

DATA SET; FLUVIAL DEPOSIT; IMAGE ANALYSIS; MODIS; PEAK FLOW; SATELLITE DATA; SUSPENDED SEDIMENT; TIME SERIES; TRIBUTARY;

AMAZON RIVER;

EID: 79957608262     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161003713044     Document Type: Article

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