Remote sensing and GIS: Indispensable tools for regional ecological studies

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 37, Issue 1, 1996, Pages 79-92

  Tiwari, A K ^a   Kudrat, M ^a   Manchanda, M L ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Biomass; degradation; ecology; erosion; Remote Sensing; soil; texture; vegetation

Indexed keywords

EID: 0029739180     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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