Evaluation of rainfall and wetland water area variability at Thirlmere Lakes using Landsat time-series data

International Journal of Environmental Science and Technology

Volumn 13, Issue 7, 2016, Pages 1781-1792

  Banerjee, B P ^a   Raval, S ^a   Timms, W ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF NEW SOUTH WALES   (Australia)

Author keywords

Landsat; Long term monitoring; Remote sensing; Time series analysis; Wetland monitoring

Indexed keywords

FLOW OF WATER; GROUNDWATER; LAKES; RAIN; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SUBSIDENCE; SURFACE WATERS; WETLANDS; WETTING;

CLASSIFICATION ACCURACY; CORRELATION ANALYSIS; CYCLIC WETTING AND DRYING; HIGH RESOLUTION DATA; LANDSAT; LONG TERM MONITORING; RAINFALL VARIABILITY; UNDERGROUND MINING OPERATIONS;

TIME SERIES ANALYSIS;

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; DATA ACQUISITION; HISTORICAL RECORD; LAKE WATER; LANDSAT; LONG-TERM CHANGE; MONITORING SYSTEM; PRECIPITATION ASSESSMENT; PUMPING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; UNDERGROUND CONSTRUCTION; WETLAND;

AUSTRALIA; NEW SOUTH WALES; SYDNEY [NEW SOUTH WALES];

EID: 84975830684     PISSN: 17351472     EISSN: 17352630     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13762-016-1018-z     Document Type: Article

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