Assessment of tsunami and anthropogenic impacts on the forest of the North Andaman Islands, India

International Journal of Remote Sensing

Volumn 30, Issue 5, 2009, Pages 1235-1249

  Rama Chandra Prasad, P ^a   Sudhakar Reddy, C ^b   Sundara Rajan, K ^a   Hazan Raza, S ^c   Bala Subrahmanya Dutt, C ^d  

^a INTERNATIONAL INSTITUTE OF INFORMATION TECHNOLOGY   (India)

^b NATIONAL REMOTE SENSING AGENCY   (India)

^c OSMANIA UNIVERSITY   (India)

^d INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

[No Author keywords available]

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; TSUNAMIS; VEGETATION;

ANTHROPOGENIC IMPACTS; CHANGE ANALYSIS; CONSERVATION MEASURES; LAND COVER MAPS; NATURAL DISTURBANCE; NATURAL VEGETATION; SATELLITE IMAGES; VISUAL INTERPRETATION;

LANDFORMS;

ANTHROPOGENIC EFFECT; DATA INTERPRETATION; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL DISTURBANCE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; ESTIMATION METHOD; FOREST RESOURCE; LAND COVER; MAPPING; NATURE CONSERVATION; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; TSUNAMI EVENT;

CONSERVATION; DEFORESTATION; FORESTRY; PLANTS; WATER ANALYSIS;

ANDAMANS; ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; ASIA; EURASIA; INDIA; INDIAN OCEAN; INDIAN OCEAN ISLANDS; SOUTH ASIA;

EID: 67650215652     PISSN: 01431161     EISSN: 13665901     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/01431160802460070     Document Type: Article

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