Assessing long-term changes in the beach width of reef Islands based on temporally fragmented remote sensing data

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 6961-6987

  Mann, Thomas ^a   Westphal, Hildegard ^a,b  

^a LEIBNIZ CENTRE FOR TROPICAL MARINE RESEARCH ZMT   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF BREMEN   (Germany)

Author keywords

Digital shoreline analysis system; Pacific ocean; QuickBird; Seawall; Sediment dynamics; Shoreline change; Small islands; Tak atoll; WorldView

Indexed keywords

REEFS; REMOTE SENSING; RETAINING WALLS;

ANALYSIS SYSTEM; PACIFIC OCEAN; QUICKBIRD; SEDIMENT DYNAMIC; SHORELINE CHANGE; SMALL ISLAND; WORLDVIEW;

BEACHES;

EID: 84905280545     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs6086961     Document Type: Article

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