Temporal changes in mangrove cover between 1972 and 2001 along the south coast of the arabian gulf

34th International Symposium on Remote Sensing of Environment - The GEOSS Era: Towards Operational Environmental Monitoring

Volumn , Issue , 2011, Pages

  Kumar, Arun ^a  

^a KING FAHD UNIVERSITY OF PETROLEUM AND MINERALS   (Saudi Arabia)

Author keywords

Arabian gulf; Image registration; Infrastructure development; Mangroves; Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ARABIAN GULF; GULF COUNTRIES; INFRASTRUCTURE DEVELOPMENT; MANGROVES; NORMALIZED DIFFERENCE VEGETATION INDEX; SATELLITE IMAGES; TEMPORAL CHANGE; URBAN DEVELOPMENT;

ENVIRONMENTAL ENGINEERING; IMAGE REGISTRATION; REMOTE SENSING; URBAN GROWTH;

OFFSHORE OIL WELLS;

EID: 84879772648     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Conference Proceeding    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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