The use and limits of remote sensing for analysing environmental and social change in the Himalayan Middle Mountains of Nepal

Global Environmental Change

Volumn 5, Issue 4, 1995, Pages 367-380

  Millette, Thomas L ^a   Tuladhar, Amulya R ^a,b   Kasperson, Roger E ^a   Turner II, BL ^a  

^a CLARK UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b TRIBHUVAN UNIVERSITY   (Nepal)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; LANDSAT TM; LANDSCAPE CHANGE; MOUNTAIN AREA; MOUNTAIN ENVIRONMENT; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIAL CHANGE;

DEVELOPING COUNTRY; ENVIRONMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; HUMAN; IMAGE PROCESSING; IMAGERY; LANDSCAPE; LENS; NEPAL; REMOTE SENSING; SOCIOLOGY;

NEPAL; NEPAL, HIMALAYAS, MIDDLE MOUNTAINS;

EID: 0029532459     PISSN: 09593780     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/0959-3780(95)00071-U     Document Type: Article

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