Deforestation trends and spatial modelling of its drivers in the dry temperate forests of northern Pakistan — A case study of Chitral

Journal of Mountain Science

Volumn 11, Issue 5, 2014, Pages 1192-1207

  Shehzad, Khuram ^a   Qamer, Faisal M ^a   Murthy, M S R ^a   Abbas, Sawaid ^b   Bhatta, Laxmi D ^a  

^a INTERNATIONAL CENTRE FOR INTEGRATED MOUNTAIN DEVELOPMENT   (Nepal)

^b HONG KONG POLYTECHNIC UNIVERSITY   (Hong Kong)

Author keywords

Cellular automata; Drivers of deforestation; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

ADMINISTRATIVE BOUNDARY; ALGORITHM; CELLULAR AUTOMATON; DEFORESTATION; DRY FOREST; FOREST COVER; LAND COVER; LANDSAT THEMATIC MAPPER; MOUNTAIN REGION; NEIGHBORHOOD; NONTIMBER FOREST PRODUCT; REMOTE SENSING; RESOURCE USE; SATELLITE DATA; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPERATE FOREST;

CHITRAL; KHYBER-PAKHTUNKHWA; PAKISTAN;

EID: 84919881968     PISSN: 16726316     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s11629-013-2932-x     Document Type: Article

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