Morphometric analysis of Upper Tons basin from Northern Foreland of Peninsular India using CARTOSAT satellite and GIS

Geocarto International

Volumn 29, Issue 8, 2014, Pages 895-914

  Yadav, Sandeep Kumar ^a   Singh, Sudhir Kumar ^a   Gupta, Manika ^b   Srivastava, Prashant K ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF ALLAHABAD   (India)

^b INDIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY DELHI   (India)

^c UNIVERSITY OF BRISTOL   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

CARTOSAT; DEM; GIS; morphometric analysis; remote sensing; Upper Tons basin

Indexed keywords

EID: 84905729041     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2013.868043     Document Type: Article

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