Evolutionary, multi-scale analysis of river bank line retreat using continuous wavelet transforms: Jamuna River, Bangladesh

Geomorphology

Volumn 183, Issue , 2013, Pages 82-95

  Mount, Nick J ^a   Tate, Nicholas J ^b   Sarker, Maminul H ^c   Thorne, Colin R ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NOTTINGHAM   (United Kingdom)

^b UNIVERSITY OF LEICESTER   (United Kingdom)

^c Centre for Environmental and Geographic Information Services   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Braided river; Continuous wavelet transform; Erosion processes; Jamuna River; Sediment wave; Time space

Indexed keywords

BANK EROSION; BRAIDED RIVER; LANDFORM EVOLUTION; REMOTE SENSING; RIVER BANK; SEDIMENT WAVE; WAVELET ANALYSIS;

BANGLADESH; JAMUNA RIVER;

EID: 84872288460     PISSN: 0169555X     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.geomorph.2012.07.017     Document Type: Article

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