Vegetation mapping and slope characteristics in Shervaryan Hills, Eastern Ghats using remote sensing and GIS

Current Science

Volumn 85, Issue 5, 2003, Pages 645-653

  Balaguru, B ^a   Britto, S John ^a   Nagamurugan, N ^a   Natarajan, D ^a   Soosairaj, S ^a   Ravipaul, S ^a   Arockiasamy, D I ^a  

^a ST JOSEPH S COLLEGE   (India)

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