Floods, floodplains, delta plains - A satellite imaging approach

Sedimentary Geology

Volumn 267-268, Issue , 2012, Pages 1-14

  Syvitski, James P M ^a   Overeem, Irina ^a   Brakenridge, G Robert ^a   Hannon, Mark ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF COLORADO   (United States)

Author keywords

Morphology; Remote sensing; River basin depressions; River sediments

Indexed keywords

ADVANCED MICROWAVE SCANNING RADIOMETER; ARCHITECTURAL ELEMENT; CONTINENTAL SCALE; DELTA PLAIN; FLOOD HYDROGRAPHS; FLOOD PLAINS; LATE QUATERNARY; PROXY RECORDS; QUANTITATIVE INFORMATION; REMOTE SENSING SYSTEM; REMOTELY SENSED DATA; RIVER BASINS; RIVER SEDIMENTS; RIVER SYSTEMS; SATELLITE IMAGING; SEDIMENT STORAGE; SEDIMENTATION PATTERN; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; TIME-SCALES;

COASTAL ZONES; FLOODS; MORPHOLOGY; RADIOMETERS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SEDIMENTOLOGY; SEDIMENTS; TRACKING RADAR;

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER);

AMSR-E; AVULSION; DELTA; FLOODING; FLOODPLAIN; GEOMORPHOLOGY; HYDROGRAPH; MODIS; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BASIN; RIVER SYSTEM; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENTATION; SHUTTLE RADAR TOPOGRAPHY MISSION; VALLEY;

EID: 84862985021     PISSN: 00370738     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.sedgeo.2012.05.014     Document Type: Review

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