Quantitative study on shoreline changes and Erosion Hazard assessment: case study in Muriganga–Saptamukhi interfluve, Sundarban, India

Modeling Earth Systems and Environment

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2016, Pages

  Ghosh, Abhishek ^a   Mukhopadhyay, Sutapa ^a  

^a VISVA BHARATI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Deposition; Erosion; Erosion hazard assessment; Estuary; Shoreline changes; Sundarban

Indexed keywords

COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; DEPOSITION; EROSION; ESTUARY; HAZARD ASSESSMENT; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENTATION; SHORELINE CHANGE; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

SUNDARBANS;

EID: 85084350767     PISSN: 23636203     EISSN: 23636211     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s40808-016-0130-x     Document Type: Article

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