Remote sensing of inland waters: Challenges, progress and future directions

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 157, Issue , 2015, Pages 1-8

  Palmer, Stephanie C J ^a   Kutser, Tiit ^b   Hunter, Peter D ^c  

^a MTA CENTRE FOR ECOLOGICAL RESEARCH   (Hungary)

^b UNIVERSITY OF TARTU   (Estonia)

^c UNIVERSITY OF STIRLING   (United Kingdom)

Author keywords

Earth observation; Ecosystem; Freshwater; Habitat; Hyperspectral; Inherent optical properties; Inland waters; Lake; Monitoring; Multispectral; Optical; Remote sensing; Reservoir; River

Indexed keywords

EID: 84920132500     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2014.09.021     Document Type: Editorial

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