A landscape approach for quantifying land-use and land-cover change (1976-2006) in middle Himalaya

Regional Environmental Change

Volumn 10, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 145-155

  Munsi, Madhushree ^a   Malaviya, Sumedha ^a   Oinam, Gracy ^a   Joshi, P K ^a  

^a TERI UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

Change matrix; Change rate; Landscape metrics; LULC; Markov transition probability

Indexed keywords

EID: 77953021217     PISSN: 14363798     EISSN: 1436378X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10113-009-0101-0     Document Type: Article

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