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This paper reports the results of an exercise on the development and application of a rule-based software program,Combine for integration of thematic information in simplest possible way. The program was used for forest land use planning in a shifting cultivation area in north-east India. The program can integrate 28 thematic information layers with upto 256 classes in each layer using 8-bit data. Additionally the software can be used for many per pixel image processing operations like merging of digitally and visually classified images, merging of a large number of thematic classes into a few wanted ones, density slicing, image thresholding etc. conveniently.
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Kushwaha, S.P.S., Oesten, G. A rule-based system for forest land use planning. J Indian Soc Remote Sens 23, 115–124 (1995). https://doi.org/10.1007/BF02995699
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