Improving geological mapping of the Farasan Islands using remote sensing and ground-truth data
We integrated satellite imagery (Landsat-8) with ground-truth data to produce a detailed and complete geological map of the Farasan Islands, off the Red Sea coast of Saudi Arabia at a scale of 1:100,000. This new map improves upon past efforts by expanding the mapped lithologies on the islands into...
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| Format: | Article |
| Language: | English |
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Taylor & Francis Group
2017-11-01
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| Series: | Journal of Maps |
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| Online Access: | http://dx.doi.org/10.1080/17445647.2017.1401492 |