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Computational Ecology and Software, 2013, 3(4): 126-137
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Ecological significance of core, buffer and transition boundaries in biosphere reserve: A remote sensing study in Similipal, Odisha, India

Anima Biswal1 , A Jeyaram1, Sumit Mukherjee2, Umesh Kumar2
1Regional remote Sensing Centre, East, NRSC, ISRO, India
2Anthropological Survey of India, Kolkata, India

Received 28 June 2013;Accepted 2 August 2013;Published online 1 December 2013
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Abstract
Protected areas and national parks need periodic assessment and monitoring for evaluating natural resources, effectiveness of management and studying the effects of global climate change. The present work has been undertaken to prepare the multi-date vegetation density maps in terms of Normalised vegetation index (NDVI) and to monitor the changes in and around the areas close to transition, buffer and core boundaries of Similipal Biosphere Reserve (SBR) using digital remote sensing and GIS techniques.Time series Landsat images covering a period of 30 years are used for change detection studies.

Keywords biosphere;reserve;similipal;core;buffer;transition;Remote Sensing;GIS;NDVI;vegetation density.


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