Assessing plant diversity in a dry tropical forest: Comparing the utility of landsat and ikonos satellite images

Remote Sensing

Volumn 2, Issue 2, 2010, Pages 478-496

  Nagendra, Harini ^a,b   Rocchini, Duccio ^c   Ghate, Rucha ^d   Sharma, Bhawna ^a   Pareeth, Sajid ^a  

^a ASHOKA TRUST FOR RESEARCH IN ECOLOGY AND THE ENVIRONMENT   (India)

^b INDIANA UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c RESEARCH AND INNOVATION CENTRE   (Italy)

^d SHODH: The Institute for Research and Development   (India)

Author keywords

Biodiversity assessment; Dry tropical forest; India; Spatial resolution

Indexed keywords

CENTRAL INDIA; DRY TROPICAL FORESTS; EMPIRICAL ASSESSMENT; HIGH RESOLUTION SATELLITE IMAGERY; HIGH SPATIAL RESOLUTION; IKONOS DATA; IKONOS SATELLITE IMAGE; INDIA; LANDSAT; LANDSAT ETM+; LANDSAT IMAGERY; PLANT DIVERSITY; SPATIAL RESOLUTION;

BIODIVERSITY; IMAGE RESOLUTION; RATING; TROPICS;

SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 77956876008     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs2020478     Document Type: Article

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