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
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
PMGSY Pradhan Mantri Gram Sadak Yojana
RKVY Rashtriya Krishi Vigyan Yojana
SE, SW South East, South West
USGS United States Geological survey