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The changes in natural ecosystems provide opportunity to increase vegetation carbon sink capacity and thereby contribute to mitigation of climate change impacts. The Indian tropics and the large ecological variation within the country afford the advantage of diverse niches and offer opportunities to reveal the role of biotic factors at different levels of organization from populations to ecosystems. The last 4 decades of research and development in the Indian space science community has been primarily application driven in response to the government space programme for national development. The expenditure in R&D over next 5 year suggest that scientific research is higher on the country's agenda. The Indo-UK Terrestrial Carbon Group (IUTCG) comprising both Indian and UK scientists, funded jointly by the Department of Science and Technology, India and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills organised a workshop to explore ways in which Earth observation data can be effectively utilised in mitigating the impacts of climate change through vegetation management. Effective integration of field observations, collected through various monitoring networks, and satellite sensor data has been proposed to provide country-wide monitoring.
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The manuscript has derived inspiration from a workshop organised at IIT Kharagpur, funded jointly by the Department of Science and Technology (DST), India and the Department of Business, Innovation and Skills (BIS) with Indo-UK Terrestrial Carbon Group (IUTCG) comprising both Indian and UK scientists.
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Dash, J., Behera, M.D., Jeganathan, C. et al. India’s contribution to mitigating the impacts of climate change through vegetation management. Trop Ecol 61, 168–171 (2020). https://doi.org/10.1007/s42965-020-00075-9
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