History of land use in India during 1880-2010: Large-scale land transformations reconstructed from satellite data and historical archives

Global and Planetary Change

Volumn 121, Issue , 2014, Pages 78-88

  Tian, Hanqin ^a   Banger, Kamaljit ^a   Bo, Tao ^a   Dadhwal, Vinay K ^b  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^b INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Cropland expansion; Deforestation; Historical land archives; India; Land use and land cover; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AGRICULTURAL MACHINERY; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEMS; ELECTRIC UTILITIES; LAND USE; PUBLIC POLICY; REMOTE SENSING; WATER RESOURCES;

BIOGEOCHEMICAL CYCLE; HIGH RESOLUTION REMOTE SENSING; HIGH-YIELDING CROPS; HISTORICAL LAND ARCHIVES; INDIA; LAND USE AND LAND COVER; TEMPORAL INFORMATION; TERRESTRIAL ECOSYSTEMS;

ECONOMICS;

CLIMATE MODELING; CROP YIELD; DATA SET; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC GROWTH; FOOD PRODUCTION; LAND USE CHANGE; POLICY MAKING; REMOTE SENSING; SATELLITE DATA; TRANSFORMATION;

DEFORESTATION; ECONOMICS; ECOSYSTEMS; INDIA; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; WATER RESOURCES;

INDIA;

EID: 84905225942     PISSN: 09218181     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.gloplacha.2014.07.005     Document Type: Article

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