Management of watersheds with remote sensing and gis: A case study of River Delta Region in Nigerianiger

American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing - Annual Conference of the American Society for Photogrammetry and Remote Sensing 2006: Prospecting for Geospatial Information Integration

Volumn 3, Issue , 2006, Pages 1475-1484

  Twumasi, Yaw A ^a,b   Merem, Edmund C ^a,b  

^a ALABAMA A AND M UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b Jackson State University   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

BASELINE DATA; DECISION MAKERS; ECOSYSTEM HEALTH; ELECTRICITY-CONSUMPTION; FOREIGN EXCHANGE; FOREST COVER; FUELWOOD EXTRACTION; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; HUMAN IMPACT; LARGE WATERSHEDS; MULTIPLE FACTORS; NIGER DELTA; NIGERIA; OIL AND GAS; POLICY DEBATES; REMOTE SENSING AND GIS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES; RESOURCE MANAGERS; RIVER DELTAS; TROPICAL ECOSYSTEMS; WATERSHED MANAGEMENT;

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; INFORMATION RETRIEVAL; INFORMATION SCIENCE; LANDFORMS; OIL WELL DRILLING; OZONE LAYER; PHOTOGRAMMETRY; REMOTE SENSING; RIVERS; SOIL CONSERVATION; WATER CONSERVATION; WATER MANAGEMENT;

WATERSHEDS;

EID: 84869015770     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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