Compact and inexpensive kite apparatus for geomorphological field aerial photography, with some remarks on operations

GeoResJ

Volumn 3-4, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 1-8

  Lorenz, Ralph D ^a   Scheidt, Stephen P ^b  

^a JOHNS HOPKINS UNIVERSITY APPLIED PHYSICS LABORATORY   (United States)

^b DEPARTMENT OF PALEOBIOLOGY   (United States)

Author keywords

Aerial photography; Geomorphology; Kite; Sand dunes

Indexed keywords

EID: 84925379885     PISSN: 22142428     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.grj.2014.06.001     Document Type: Article

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