Remote Sensing Analysis of Agroforestry in Bathinda and Patiala Districts of Punjab using Sub-pixel Method and Medium Resolution Data

Journal of the Indian Society of Remote Sensing

Volumn 44, Issue 4, 2016, Pages 657-664

  Rizvi, R H ^a   Newaj, Ram ^a   Karmakar, P S ^a   Saxena, A ^a   Dhyani, S K ^a  

^a NATIONAL RESEARCH CENTRE FOR AGROFORESTRY   (India)

Author keywords

Agroforestry; Geo spatial; Remote sensing; Sub pixel; Supervised

Indexed keywords

ACCURACY ASSESSMENT; AGROFORESTRY; DECIDUOUS TREE; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND USE; LISS; PIXEL; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL FERTILITY;

BATHINDA; INDIA; PATIALA; PUNJAB [INDIA];

EUCALYPTUS; POPULUS;

EID: 84957692172     PISSN: 0255660X     EISSN: 09743006     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s12524-015-0463-3     Document Type: Article

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