Uncovering Angkor: Integrated remote sensing applications in the archaeology of early Cambodia

Remote Sensing and Digital Image Processing

Volumn 16, Issue , 2012, Pages 197-230

  Evans, Damian ^a   Traviglia, Arianna ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF SYDNEY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Angkor; ASTER; Cambodia; Multispectral data; Principal component analysis (PCA); Quickbird; Vegetation indices; Vegetation suppression

Indexed keywords

EID: 84979917746     PISSN: 15673200     EISSN: 22151842     Source Type: Book Series    
DOI: 10.1007/978-90-481-8801-7_9     Document Type: Chapter

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