Using satellite imagery to reveal the course of an extinct river below the Thar Desert in the Indo-Pak region

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 32, Issue 18, 2011, Pages 5197-5216

  Gupta, A K ^a   Sharma, J R ^b   Sreenivasan, G ^b  

^a DR AMBEDKAR INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

POTABLE WATER; RIVERS;

ARCHAEOLOGICAL SITE; HIMALAYAN RIVERS; HYDROGEOLOGICAL; RIVER COURSE; SATELLITE IMAGES; SHIFT-AND; THAR DESERT; TUBEWELLS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ARCHAEOLOGY; DIGITAL IMAGE; FLUVIAL GEOMORPHOLOGY; GEOMORPHOLOGICAL MAPPING; HYDROGEOLOGY; RIVER CHANNEL; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

THAR DESERT;

EID: 80053104373     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431161.2010.495093     Document Type: Article

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