Using satellite data to extract volume-area-elevation relationships for Urmia Lake, Iran

Journal of Great Lakes Research

Volumn 39, Issue 1, 2013, Pages 90-99

  Sima, S ^a   Tajrishy, M ^a  

^a SHARIF UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Iran)

Author keywords

Altimetry data; Power model; Truncated pyramid model; Urmia Lake; Volume area elevation (V A L) characteristics

Indexed keywords

ACCURATE ESTIMATION; ALTIMETRY DATA; APPROXIMATE MODEL; ECOLOGICAL BENEFITS; EMPIRICAL FORMULAS; LAKE AREAS; LAKE WATER BALANCE; PARAMETERIZED; POWER MODEL; RADAR ALTIMETRY; REMOTE SENSING DATA; SATELLITE DATA; SURFACE DATA; TRUNCATED PYRAMIDS; VOLUME-AREA-ELEVATION (V-A-L) CHARACTERISTICS; WATER MANAGERS;

DIGITAL STORAGE; ECOLOGY; ESTIMATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITES; WATER LEVELS; WATER RESOURCES;

LAKES;

LAKE LEVEL; NUMERICAL MODEL; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE ALLOCATION; SALINE LAKE; SATELLITE DATA; VOLUME; WATER BUDGET; WATER LEVEL; WATER RESOURCE;

IRAN; LAKE URMIA;

EID: 84873749323     PISSN: 03801330     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jglr.2012.12.013     Document Type: Article

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