Analysis of land use history and fallow vegetation recovery: A case study of shifting cultivation by the Karen in the Bago Mountains, Myanmar

Southeast Asian Studies

Volumn 45, Issue 3, 2007, Pages 343-358

  Suzuki, Reiji ^a   Takeda, Shinya ^a   Hla Maung, Thein ^b  

^a KYOTO UNIVERSITY   (Japan)

^b University of Forestry   (Myanmar)

Author keywords

Long fallow; Normalized difference vegetation index (NDVI); Remote sensing; Supervised classification

Indexed keywords

FALLOW; GPS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND USE; NDVI; RECONSTRUCTION; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHIFTING CULTIVATION;

ASIA; EURASIA; MYANMAR; SOUTHEAST ASIA;

EID: 45149104099     PISSN: 05638682     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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