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A Case Study of Moving Sand Dunes: The Barchans of the Kharga Oasis

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Recently we have proposed the use of the time series of Google Earth to investigate the motion of sand dunes. In this paper we consider a case study, applying the method to some barchans of the Kharga Oasis. To evaluate the motion of these dunes as a function of their size we use Gimp, a GNU image processing software.

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  • Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2013. "A Case Study of Moving Sand Dunes: The Barchans of the Kharga Oasis," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 2(08), pages 95-97, August.
    • Handle: RePEc:adm:journl:v:2:y:2013:i:8:p:95-97
    DOI: 10.18483/ijSci.241
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    1. Amelia Carolina Sparavigna, 2013. "A Study of Moving Sand Dunes by Means of Satellite Images," International Journal of Sciences, Office ijSciences, vol. 2(08), pages 33-42, August.
    2. David S. G. Thomas & Melanie Knight & Giles F. S. Wiggs, 2005. "Remobilization of southern African desert dune systems by twenty-first century global warming," Nature, Nature, vol. 435(7046), pages 1218-1221, June.
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