Assessment of Water Quality Index in the St. Thomas Mount Block Using GIS and Remote Sensing

Polish Journal of Environmental Studies

Volumn 24, Issue 4, 2015, Pages 1611-1619

  Jayalakshmi, Shanmugam ^a   Velappan, Esakimuthu ^a  

^a ANNA UNIVERSITY   (India)

Author keywords

GIS; Land use and land cover; Spatial distribution; Water quality index

Indexed keywords

EID: 84992489908     PISSN: 12301485     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.15244/PJOES/39550     Document Type: Article

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