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Forest cover assessment and trend (1970s to 2001) in Central India using remote sensing and GIS [1]

Forest cover assessment in India is being carried out using satellite remote sensing for more than two decades. In the present study an attempt has been made to map forest cover of Central India on 1 : 50000 scale using satellite data of 1970s.

Publication Date: 
01/11/2008
Akhlaq Amin Wani [2]
Indian Forester [3]
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Forests [4], Remote Sensing [5], Geographical Information Systems (GIS) [6], India [7], Statistics [8]

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[8] http://admin.indiaenvironmentportal.org.in/category/thesaurus/statistics