LIST OF ABBREVIATIONS

ASTER Advanced Space borne Thermal Emission and Reflection Radiometer

CCCMA Centre for Climate Change and Mountain Agriculture

DST Department of Sciences and Technology

ERDAS Earth Resource Data Analysis System

EROS Earth Resources Observation and Science

FCC False Color Composite

FSI Forest Survey of India

GBPNIHED G B Pant Institute of Himalayan Environment and Sustainable Development

GCPs Ground Control Points

GDEM Global Digital Elevation Model

GIS Geographic Information System

GPS Global Positioning System

HICAB Human and Institutional Capacity Building

ICIMOD International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development

IRS Indian Remote Sensing Satellite

KVK Krishi Vigyan Kendra

LISS Linear Imaging Self Scanning System

LU/LC Land use / Land cover

NDVI Normalised Difference Vegetation Index

NE, NW North East, North West

NMHS National Mission on Himalayan Sustainability

OA Overall Accuracy

PA Producer's Accuracy

PMGSY Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana

RGB Red Green Blue

RKVY Rashtriya Krishi Vigyan Yojana

RS Remote Sensing

SOI Survey of India

SE, SW South East, South West

TCC True Color Composite

USGS United States Geological survey

UA User's Accuracy