Non-vegetated playa morphodynamics using multi-temporal landsat imagery in a semi-arid endorheic basin: Salar de Uyuni, Bolivia

Remote Sensing

Volumn 6, Issue 10, 2014, Pages 10131-10151

  Li, Jiaguang ^a   Menenti, Massimo ^b   Mousivand, Alijafar ^b   Luthi, Stefan M ^a  

^a DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

^b DELFT UNIVERSITY OF TECHNOLOGY   (Netherlands)

Author keywords

Clay rich surface; Landsat imagery; Maximum likelihood classification; Playa morphodynamics; Silt rich surface

Indexed keywords

BANKS (BODIES OF WATER); CLAY MINERALS; CLIMATE CHANGE; GRAIN SIZE AND SHAPE; LIBRARIES; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; RIVERS; SILT;

CLASSIFICATION RESULTS; GEOMORPHOLOGIC CHANGES; GRAIN SIZE DISTRIBUTION; LANDSAT IMAGERY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFICATIONS; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD CLASSIFIERS; MORPHODYNAMICS; REMOTE SENSING TECHNIQUES;

REMOTE SENSING;

EID: 84923609472     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs61010131     Document Type: Article

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