Wetlands' inventory, mapping and land cover index assessment on Mauritius

Wetlands

Volumn 33, Issue 4, 2013, Pages 585-595

  Mamoun, Carène M ^a   Nigel, Rody ^b   Rughooputh, Soonil D D V ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF MAURITIUS   (Mauritius)

^b CENTRE EAU TERRE ENVIRONNEMENT   (Canada)

Author keywords

GIS; Inventory; Mapping; Mauritius; Wetlands

Indexed keywords

BUFFER ZONE; GIS; HOUSING PROJECT; INDEX METHOD; INVENTORY; LAND CLASSIFICATION; LAND COVER; MAPPING; MARINE PARK; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SEDIMENT YIELD; SLOPE DYNAMICS; URBANIZATION; WETLAND; WETLAND MANAGEMENT;

MASCARENE ISLANDS; MAURITIUS;

AVES;

EID: 84880792567     PISSN: 02775212     EISSN: 19436246     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s13157-013-0415-z     Document Type: Article

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