Modeling land suitability analysis to livestock grazing planning based on GIS application

World Applied Sciences Journal

Volumn 13, Issue 6, 2011, Pages 1549-1564

  Amiri, Fazel ^a   Rashid, Abdul ^b   Shariff, Mohamed ^b   Saadatfar, Amir ^c  

^a ISLAMIC AZAD UNIVERSITY   (Iran)

^b UNIVERSITY PUTRA MALAYSIA   (Malaysia)

^c Gorgan Agriculture and Natural Resource University   (Iran)

Author keywords

Common use; FAO; Geographic information system (GIS); Livestock grazing; Range suitability model

Indexed keywords

EID: 84864944330     PISSN: 18184952     EISSN: 19916426     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: None     Document Type: Article

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