Spectral fingerprinting: characterizing suspended sediment sources by the use of VNIR-SWIR spectral information

Journal of Soils and Sediments

Volumn 14, Issue 12, 2014, Pages 1965-1981

  Brosinsky, Arlena ^a,b   Foerster, Saskia ^b   Segl, Karl ^b   López Tarazón, José Andrés ^c,d   Piqué, Gemma ^d,e   Bronstert, Axel ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF POTSDAM   (Germany)

^b GFZ GERMAN RESEARCH CENTRE FOR GEOSCIENCES   (Germany)

^c LIVERPOOL JOHN MOORES UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^d UNIVERSITY OF LLEIDA   (Spain)

^e CATALAN INSTITUTE FOR WATER RESEARCH ICRA   (Spain)

Author keywords

Is bena river; Mixing models; Northeast Spain; Sediment fingerprinting; Spectroscopy; Suspended sediment

Indexed keywords

EID: 84902234829     PISSN: 14390108     EISSN: 16147480     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11368-014-0927-z     Document Type: Article

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