Assessment and monitoring of deforestation and land-use changes (1976-2014) in Andaman and Nicobar Islands, India using remote sensing and GIS

Current Science

Volumn 111, Issue 9, 2016, Pages 1492-1499

  Reddy, C Sudhakar ^a   Satish, K V ^a   Pasha, S Vazeed ^a   Jha, C S ^a   Dadhwal, V K ^a  

^a INDIAN SPACE RESEARCH ORGANISATION   (India)

Author keywords

Andaman and Nicobar Islands; Deforestation; Forest; GIS; Land use; Remote sensing

Indexed keywords

EID: 84995581861     PISSN: 00113891     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.18520/cs/v111/i9/1492-1499     Document Type: Article

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