Spatial and temporal changes of sundarbans reserve forest in Bangladesh

Environment and Natural Resources Journal

Volumn 15, Issue 1, 2017, Pages 51-61

  Mondal, Sanaul Haque ^a   Debnath, Premanondo ^b  

^a EAST WEST UNIVERSITY   (Bangladesh)

^b Center for Environmental and Geographic Information Services (CEGIS)   (Bangladesh)

Author keywords

Bangladesh; Geographic information system (GIS); Land cover change; Remote sensing; Sundarbans mangrove forest; Sundarbans reserved forest

Indexed keywords

FOREST RESOURCE; GIS; LAND COVER; MANGROVE; NDVI; REMOTE SENSING; SPATIAL ANALYSIS; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS;

BANGLADESH; INDIA; SUNDARBANS NATIONAL PARK; WEST BENGAL;

EID: 85035072613     PISSN: 16865456     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.14456/ennrj.2017.5     Document Type: Article

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