Temporal and spatial changes in coastline movement of the Yangtze delta during 1974-2010

Journal of Asian Earth Sciences

Volumn 66, Issue , 2013, Pages 166-174

  Chu, Zhongxin ^a,b   Yang, Xuhui ^a   Feng, Xiuli ^a,b   Fan, Dejiang ^a,b   Li, Yingkun ^a   Shen, Xing ^a   Miao, Anyang ^a  

^a OCEAN UNIVERSITY OF CHINA   (China)

^b BEIJING UNIVERSITY OF POSTS AND TELECOMMUNICATIONS   (China)

Author keywords

Human impacts; Shoreline change; Yangtze (Changjiang) delta

Indexed keywords

COAST; COASTAL ENGINEERING; HUMAN ACTIVITY; LANDSAT; PROGRADATION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; SEDIMENT TRANSPORT; SEDIMENT YIELD; SEDIMENTATION RATE; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

CHINA; YANGTZE DELTA;

EID: 84875367827     PISSN: 13679120     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jseaes.2013.01.002     Document Type: Article

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