Assessing vegetation changes in timberline ecotone of Nanda Devi National Park, Uttarakhand

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 18, Issue 1, 2012, Pages 472-479

  Bharti, Rupesh R ^a   Adhikari, Bhupendra S ^a   Rawat, Gopal S ^a  

^a WILDLIFE INSTITUTE OF INDIA   (India)

Author keywords

Change detection; Nanda devi np; Timberline ecotone; Western himalaya

Indexed keywords

ASSESSMENT METHOD; DETECTION METHOD; ECOTONE; FOREST CANOPY; LANDSAT MULTISPECTRAL SCANNER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; REMOTE SENSING; TREELINE; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; VEGETATION INDEX;

HIMALAYAS; INDIA; NANDA DEVI BIOSPHERE RESERVE; UTTARAKHAND;

EID: 84864513144     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2011.09.018     Document Type: Article

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