Vegetation change detection in Barak Basin

Current Science

Volumn 96, Issue 9, 2009, Pages 1236-1242

  Chakraborty, Kasturi ^a  

^a North Eastern Space Applications Centre   (India)

Author keywords

Change detection; MODIS vegetation index; Principal component analysis

Indexed keywords

EID: 70349095840     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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