Contemporary land cover and land use patterns in India estimated by different regional and global data sets

Journal of Land Use Science

Volumn 10, Issue 1, 2015, Pages 95-107

  Banger, Kamaljit ^a   Tian, Hanqin ^a   Tao, Bo ^a  

^a AUBURN UNIVERSITY   (United States)

Author keywords

Census data; India; Land cover and land use; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84918508876     PISSN: 1747423X     EISSN: 17474248     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/1747423X.2013.858786     Document Type: Article

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