A spaceborne multisensor approach to monitor the desiccation of Lake Urmia in Iran

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 156, Issue , 2015, Pages 349-360

  Tourian, M J ^a   Elmi, O ^a   Chen, Q ^a   Devaraju, B ^a   Roohi, Sh ^a   Sneeuw, N ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF STUTTGART   (Germany)

Author keywords

GRACE; Lake desiccation; Satellite altimetry; Satellite imagery

Indexed keywords

GRACE; LAKE URMIA; MULTI SENSOR; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SPACE-BORNE;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ANNUAL VARIATION; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; BATHYMETRY; CRYOSAT-2; DESICCATION; GRACE; HYDROLOGICAL CYCLE; HYPERSALINE ENVIRONMENT; IN SITU MEASUREMENT; SATELLITE ALTIMETRY; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WATER BUDGET; WATER LEVEL; WATER STORAGE; WATERSHED;

IRAN; LAKE URMIA;

EID: 84908582491     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.10.006     Document Type: Article

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