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Table 11.1
A few examples of studies based on archives aerial and satellites photos.
Area Concerned
Time Series
Resolution
Data
Parameters
References
Surveyed
Inter-site comparisons
50 braided reaches
Present
50 cm
National
Orthophotos
Archives
Width, slope
Piegay et al., 2009
Pacific northwest
region/42 reaches
Sequential photos
1939 to 2000
1:12,000 scale
photos
National
Orthophotos
Archives
Channel shifting
and pattern
Beechie et al.,
2006
30 meanders/119
oxbows
Present
Variable
Google Imagery
Width, sinuosity,
length
Constantine and
Dunne, 2008
10 to 20 meanders
belt of several 10th
km
Present
Variable
Google Imagery
Meander
geometry
Zhang et al., 2008
Study at reach scale
Ain River
(France)/40 km
reach
1945 and 1991
50 cm
National
Orthophotos
Archives
combined with
LIDAR and field
surveys
Erosion,
floodplain
vegetation
Marston et al.
1995; Rollet
2007
Rh one River
(France)/500 km
reach
83 dates : 1999 to
2009
60 m
Landsat
Surficial
temperature
Wawrziniak et al.
2011
Tromie River
(Scotland)/16 km
reach
Fall 2008
3 cm
Airbone special
survey aerial
photographies
(true color)
combined with
field surveys
Width, depth,
grain size
Carbonneau
et al., 2012
Dr ome River
(France)/106 km
Present
50 cm
National
Orthophotos
Archives
Width, sinuosity,
length
Wiederkehr et al.,
2010
Rhin River
(France)/50 km
reach
8 dates : 1949 to
2008
50 cm and
20 cm
(recent
orthopho-
tos)
Airbone special
survey : aerial
photographies
(color and black
and white)
Morphological
evolution
Arnaud et al.,
2010
Brahmaputra River
(Bangladesh)/
200 km reach
14 dates : 1967 to
2002
10 m (1967);
80 m (1973
to 1987);
30 m (1989
to 2002)
Panchromatic
photos images
acquired by the
American
Corona satellite
(1967); Landsat
MSS (1973 to
1987); Landsat
TM (1989 to
2002)
Width of the
braided belt;
number and
width of
channels,
distribution of
land cover
attributes and
land stability
Takagi et al., 2007
(
continued overleaf
)
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