Biodiversity Conservation using Remote Sensing and GIS Tools
- India, comprising only 2.4% of the land area, has so far recorded more than 54,000 species of plants and 1,03,000 species of fauna.
- Four of the world's 34 hotspot areas from the biodiversity point of view are located in India– the Himalayas, Indo-Burma, the Western Ghats and Sundaland.
- India's biodiversity is spread across 10 biogeographic regions- Trans Himalaya, Himalayan region, desert, semi-arid region, Western Ghats, Deccan Plateau, Gangetic plain, north-eastern region, coastal region and islands.
- Geographic Information System (GIS) is a system capable of creating, managing, analyzing and mapping all types of data.
- Remote sensing (RS) provides information on biodiversity ....
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