Remote sensing and GIS contribution to the investigation of karst landscapes in NW-Morocco

Geosciences (Switzerland)

Volumn 4, Issue 2, 2014, Pages 50-72

  Theilen Willige, Barbara ^a   Malek, Halima Ait ^b   Charif, Abdessamad ^b   El Bchari, Fatima ^b   Chaïbi, Mohamed ^b  

^a TECHNISCHE UNIVERSITÄT BERLIN   (Germany)

^b CADI AYYAD UNIVERSITY   (Morocco)

Author keywords

GIS; Karst; Morphometric analysis; Northwest Morocco; Remote sensing; Weighted overlay

Indexed keywords

EID: 84903216308     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20763263     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/geosciences4020050     Document Type: Article

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