Remote sensing of coastal environments: An overview

English Remote Sensing of Coastal Environments

Volumn , Issue , 2009, Pages 1-22

  Wang, Yeqiao ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF RHODE ISLAND   (United States)

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