Remote sensing of water resources, disasters, and urban areas: Monitoring, modeling, and mapping advances over the last 50 years and a vision for the future

Remote Sensing of Water Resources, Disasters, and Urban Studies

Volumn 3, Issue , 2015, Pages 615-658

  Thenkabail, Prasad S ^a  

^a U S GEOLOGICAL SURVEY   (United States)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING;

URBAN AREAS;

WATER RESOURCES;

EID: 84971640005     PISSN: None     EISSN: None     Source Type: Book    
DOI: 10.1201/b19321     Document Type: Chapter

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