Remote sensing and GIS analysis for mapping spatio-temporalchanges of erosion and deposition of two Mediterranean river deltas: The case of the Axios and Aliakmonas rivers, Greece

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 35, Issue PB, 2015, Pages 217-228

  Petropoulos, George P ^a   Kalivas, Dionissios P ^b   Griffiths, Hywel M ^a   Dimou, Paraskevi P ^b  

^a ABERYSTWYTH UNIVERSITY   (United Kingdom)

^b AGRICULTURAL UNIVERSITY OF ATHENS   (Greece)

Author keywords

Coastline mapping; GIS; Landsat TM; Photo interpretation; Remote sensing; Support vector machines

Indexed keywords

ARTIFICIAL INTELLIGENCE; COASTAL WETLAND; DELTA; DEPOSITION; EROSION; GIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MAPPING; MEDITERRANEAN ENVIRONMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL VARIATION; TEMPORAL VARIATION;

ALIAKMONAS RIVER; AXIOS RIVER; GREECE;

ANIMALIA;

EID: 84924354731     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2014.08.004     Document Type: Article

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