Seasonal variability of turbid river plumes off central Chile based on high-resolution MODIS imagery

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 123, Issue , 2012, Pages 220-233

  Saldías, Gonzalo S ^a,c   Sobarzo, Marcus ^a   Largier, John ^b   Moffat, Carlos ^a   Letelier, Ricardo ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF CONCEPCIÓN   (Chile)

^b UNIVERSITY OF CALIFORNIA DAVIS   (United States)

^c OREGON STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Connected plumes; NIR SWIR; NLw555; Ocean color

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL CHILE; CONNECTED PLUMES; EFFECTS OF ROTATION; HIGH RESOLUTION; HIGH RESOLUTION IMAGE; HYDROGRAPHIC DATA; MODERATE RESOLUTION IMAGING SPECTRORADIOMETER; MODIS IMAGERY; NIR-SWIR; NLW555; OCEAN COLOR; PLUME DYNAMICS; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; RIVER OUTFLOW; RIVER PLUME; SEASONAL VARIABILITY; SEASONALITY; STUDY AREAS; TURBID WATER;

CLIMATOLOGY; DYNAMICS; RIVERS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TURBIDITY;

RADIOMETERS;

COLOR; HYDROGRAPHY; MODIS; RESOLUTION; RIVER DISCHARGE; RIVER FLOW; RIVER PLUME; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEASONAL VARIATION; TURBIDITY;

CHILE; MATAQUITO RIVER; MAULE; MAULE RIVER;

EID: 84859936551     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2012.03.010     Document Type: Article

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