Application of remote sensing in coal-fire studies and coal-fire-related emissions

GSA Reviews in Engineering Geology

Volumn 18, Issue , 2007, Pages 239-248

  Gangopadhyay, Prasun K ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TWENTE   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Coal fire; Emission; Greenhouse gas; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ATMOSPHERIC COMPOSITION; CARBON DIOXIDE; COAL; COAL DEPOSITS; COAL MINES; FIRES; GLOBAL WARMING; GREENHOUSE GASES; NEUTRON EMISSION; REMOTE SENSING;

ANTHROPOGENIC CAUSE; COAL FIRES; DETECTION INSTRUMENTS; EARTH'S SURFACE; GLOBAL ENVIRONMENT; LAND SUBSIDENCE; PRE-INDUSTRIAL; REMOTE SENSORS;

COAL COMBUSTION;

EID: 80051907117     PISSN: 00802018     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1130/2007.4118(16)     Document Type: Conference Paper

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