Quantification and monitoring of deforestation in India over eight decades (1930–2013)

Biodiversity and Conservation

Volumn 25, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 93-116

  Sudhakar Reddy, C ^a   Jha, C S ^a   Dadhwal, V K ^a   Hari Krishna, P ^a   Vazeed Pasha, S ^a   Satish, K V ^a   Dutta, Kalloli ^a   Saranya, K R L ^a   Rakesh, F ^a   Rajashekar, G ^a   Diwakar, P G ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Conservation; Deforestation; Forest; India; Monitoring; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

AFFORESTATION; BIOGEOGRAPHICAL REGION; CONSERVATION MANAGEMENT; DEFORESTATION; ENVIRONMENTAL FACTOR; FOREST COVER; QUANTITATIVE ANALYSIS; REMOTE SENSING;

ANDAMANS AND NICOBARS; INDIA;

EID: 84955186124     PISSN: 09603115     EISSN: 15729710     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10531-015-1033-2     Document Type: Article

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