Extracting the intertidal extent and topography of the Australian coastline from a 28 year time series of Landsat observations

Remote Sensing of Environment

Volumn 195, Issue , 2017, Pages 153-169

  Sagar, Stephen ^a   Roberts, Dale ^a,b   Bala, Biswajit ^a   Lymburner, Leo ^a  

^a GEOSCIENCE AUSTRALIA   (Australia)

^b AUSTRALIAN NATIONAL UNIVERSITY   (Australia)

Author keywords

Coastal; Elevation; Image compositing; Intertidal; Landsat; Tidal modelling; Time series; Topography

Indexed keywords

REMOTE SENSING; TIDES; TIME SERIES;

COASTAL; ELEVATION; IMAGE COMPOSITING; INTERTIDAL; LANDSAT; TIDAL MODELLING;

TOPOGRAPHY;

COAST; GPS; IMAGE ANALYSIS; INTERTIDAL ENVIRONMENT; LANDSAT; MODEL VALIDATION; TIDAL MODELING; TIDAL RANGE; TIME SERIES ANALYSIS; TOPOGRAPHY;

EID: 85018551015     PISSN: 00344257     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.rse.2017.04.009     Document Type: Article

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