Retrieving sand dune movements using sub-pixel correlation of multi-temporal optical remote sensing imagery, northwest Sinai Peninsula, Egypt

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 121, Issue , 2012, Pages 51-60

  Hermas, ElSayed ^a   Leprince, Sebastien ^b   El Magd, Islam Abou ^c  

^a UMM AL QURA UNIVERSITY   (Saudi Arabia)

^b CALIFORNIA INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (United States)

^c NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR REMOTE SENSING AND SPACE SCIENCES   (Egypt)

Author keywords

COSI Corr; Optical remote sensing; Sand dune movement; Sinai Peninsula

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE MEASUREMENT; BARCHAN DUNES; COREGISTRATION; COSI-CORR; CREST LINES; DISPLACEMENT FIELD; FIELD WORKS; HIGH DEGREE OF ACCURACY; LATERAL MIGRATION; LATERAL MOVEMENT; MIGRATION RATES; MULTI-TEMPORAL; OPTICAL REMOTE SENSING; OPTICAL REMOTE-SENSING IMAGERY; PANCHROMATIC IMAGES; POTENTIAL HAZARDS; SAND DUNES; SENSED IMAGE; SINAI PENINSULA; SPATIAL COVERAGE; SPATIAL VARIABILITY; STUDY AREAS; SUBPIXEL CORRELATION; WELL-ALIGNED;

HAZARDS; OPTICAL CORRELATION; REMOTE SENSING; WIND EFFECTS;

LANDFORMS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; CORRELATION; DUNE; LAND USE CHANGE; LINEARITY; OPTICAL METHOD; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

EGYPT; SINAI;

EID: 84857739050     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.01.002     Document Type: Article

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