Continental scale mapping of tidal flats across east Asia using the landsat archive

Remote Sensing

Volumn 4, Issue 11, 2012, Pages 3417-3426

  Murray, Nicholas J ^a,b   Phinn, Stuart R ^a   Clemens, Robert S ^a   Roelfsema, Chris M ^a   Fuller, Richard A ^a,b  

^a UNIVERSITY OF QUEENSLAND   (Australia)

^b CSIRO   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal wetland; Coastline; Delta; Intertidal flat; Land cover; Mudflat; Normalized differenced water index NDWI; Salt marsh

Indexed keywords

COASTAL WETLANDS; COASTLINE; DELTA; INTERTIDAL FLAT; LAND COVER; MUDFLATS; SALT MARSHES; WATER INDEX;

BIODIVERSITY; ECOSYSTEMS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; MAPPING; SEA LEVEL; SURGE PROTECTION; TIDES;

WETLANDS;

EID: 84870773337     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs4113417     Document Type: Article

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