Monitoring dual-season hydrological dynamics of seasonally flooded wetlands in the lower reach of Mayurakshi River, Eastern India

Geocarto International

Volumn 33, Issue 3, 2018, Pages 225-239

  Mondal, Debabrata ^a,b   Pal, Swades ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GOUR BANGA   (India)

^b Subhas Chandra Bose Centenary College   (India)

Author keywords

Gangetic floodplain; Landsat image; MNDWI; seasonally flooded wetlands; The Mayurakshi River

Indexed keywords

ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FLOOD; FLOODPLAIN; LANDSAT; MULTISPECTRAL IMAGE; SATELLITE IMAGERY; WETLAND;

GANGETIC PLAIN; INDIA; MAYURAKSHI RIVER;

EID: 84990179045     PISSN: 10106049     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/10106049.2016.1240720     Document Type: Article

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