Land use/cover change and environmental vulnerability analysis in Birahi Ganga sub-watershed of the Garhwal Himalaya, India

Tropical Ecology

Volumn 48, Issue 2, 2007, Pages 241-250

  Yu, Haiying ^a   Joshi, P K ^b   Das, K K ^b   Chauniyal, D D ^c   Melick, David R ^a   Yang, Xuefei ^a   Xu, Jianchu ^a,d  

^a KUNMING INSTITUTE OF BOTANY   (China)

^b TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

^c H N B GARHWAL UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

Author keywords

Geographical information system; Human interference; Remote sensing; Spatial Principal Component Analysis; Watershed

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; ELEVATION; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GIS; GRAZING; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; POPULATION PRESSURE; PRINCIPAL COMPONENT ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING; WATERSHED;

ASIA; EURASIA; GARHWAL HIMALAYAS; HIMALAYAS; INDIA; SOUTH ASIA; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 53849096728     PISSN: 05643295     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Conference Paper

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