Tracking desertification in California using remote sensing: A sand dune encroachment approach

Remote Sensing

Volumn 3, Issue 1, 2011, Pages 1-13

  Lam, Doris K ^a   Remmel, Tarmo K ^a   Drezner, Taly D ^a  

^a YORK UNIVERSITY   (Canada)

Author keywords

Active dunes; Desertification; Encroachment; Inactive dunes; Spectral brightness

Indexed keywords

ACTIVE DUNES; DESERTIFICATION; ENCROACHMENT; INACTIVE DUNES; SPECTRAL BRIGHTNESS;

ARID REGIONS; CLIMATOLOGY; LANDFORMS; LUMINANCE; NICKEL COMPOUNDS; REMOTE SENSING; SAND; VEGETATION;

WEATHERING;

EID: 80051867999     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs3010001     Document Type: Article

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