Mapping fragile mountain watersheds using topography with remote sensing

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 43, Issue 1, 2002, Pages 203-212

  Uniyal, Sanjay K ^a   Awasthi, Anjali ^a   Rawat, Gopal S ^a  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Conservation; Forest; Himalaya; Mapping; Uttaranchal

Indexed keywords

FOREST; REMOTE SENSING; TOPOGRAPHIC MAPPING; TOPOGRAPHY; WATERSHED;

CLASSIFICATION; FOREST; INDIA; REMOTE SENSING; RURAL AREA; SPECIES DISTRIBUTION; TOPOGRAPHY; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WATERSHED;

INDIA;

EID: 0036403784     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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