Assessment of land suitability and capability by integrating remote sensing and GIS for agriculture in Chamarajanagar district, Karnataka, India

Egyptian Journal of Remote Sensing and Space Science

Volumn 19, Issue 1, 2016, Pages 125-141

  Abdelrahman, Mohamed A E ^a   Natarajan, A ^b   Hegde, Rajendra ^b  

^a NATIONAL AUTHORITY FOR REMOTE SENSING AND SPACE SCIENCES   (Egypt)

^b ICAR NATIONAL BUREAU OF SOIL SURVEY AND LAND USE PLANNING   (India)

Author keywords

Capability evaluation; Geographic information system (GIS); Remote sensing; Suitability evaluation

Indexed keywords

CROPS; DECISION MAKING; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL SURVEYS; SOILS; TEXTURES; ZONING;

AGRICULTURAL PLANNING; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTIONS; CAPABILITY EVALUATIONS; LAND USE SUITABILITY; PHYSICAL CONSTRAINTS; REMOTE SENSING AND GIS; SPATIAL REPRESENTATIONS; SUITABILITY EVALUATION;

GEOGRAPHIC INFORMATION SYSTEMS;

AGRICULTURAL APPLICATION; AGRICULTURAL PRODUCTION; ASSESSMENT METHOD; GIS; LAND USE; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS;

CHAMARAJANAGAR; INDIA; KARNATAKA;

EID: 84969160337     PISSN: 11109823     EISSN: 20902476     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.ejrs.2016.02.001     Document Type: Article

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