Agriculture crop residue burning in the Indo-Gangetic Plains - A study using IRS-P6 AWiFS satellite data

Current Science

Volumn 91, Issue 8, 2006, Pages 1085-1089

  Badarinath, K V S ^a   Kiran Chand, T R ^a   Krishna Prasad, V ^b  

^a NATIONAL REMOTE SENSING AGENCY   (India)

^b OHIO STATE UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Biomass burning; Cereal waste, gases and particle emissions; Field burning; Global change

Indexed keywords

TRITICUM AESTIVUM;

EID: 33751005309     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: 00113891     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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