The challenges of remote monitoring of wetlands

Remote Sensing

Volumn 7, Issue 8, 2015, Pages 10938-10950

  Gallant, Alisa L ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

Remote mapping; Remote monitoring; Water; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

EID: 84959009355     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs70810938     Document Type: Editorial

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