Coastal change and beach ridges along the northwest coast of Peru: Image and GIS analysis of the Chira, Piura, and Colán beach-ridge plains

Journal of Coastal Research

Volumn 20, Issue 4, 2004, Pages 1102-1125

  Rogers, Stacy Shafer ^a,d   Sandweiss, Daniel H ^a,b   Maasch, Kirk A ^a   Belknap, Daniel F ^a   Agouris, Peggy ^c  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAINE   (United States)

^b University of Maine   (United States)

^c University of Maine   (United States)

^d EARTH TECH Infrastructure Services   (United States)

Author keywords

Beach ridge; Coastal change; El Ni o; ENSO; Geoarchaeology; Geographic Information Systems; GIS; Image processing; Peru

Indexed keywords

AERIAL PHOTOGRAPHY; BEACH RIDGE; COASTAL MORPHOLOGY; COASTAL ZONE; EL NINO-SOUTHERN OSCILLATION; GIS; IMAGE PROCESSING; SEA LEVEL CHANGE;

PERU; SOUTH AMERICA; WESTERN HEMISPHERE; WORLD;

CHIRA;

EID: 9444242164     PISSN: 07490208     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2112/03-0006r.1     Document Type: Article

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