Modeling site suitability for oil palm plantations in southern Thailand

GIScience and Remote Sensing

Volumn 43, Issue 3, 2006, Pages 252-267

  Dansagoonpon, Sutat ^a   Tripathi, Nitin Kumar ^a  

^a ASIAN INSTITUTE OF TECHNOLOGY   (Thailand)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; ANALYTICAL HIERARCHY PROCESS; DESIGN; GIS; LAND EVALUATION; LAND USE PLANNING; PLANTATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; SOUTHEAST ASIA; THAILAND;

ELAEIS;

EID: 33750216273     PISSN: 15481603     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.2747/1548-1603.43.3.252     Document Type: Article

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