Assessment of forest cover and carbon stock changes in sub-tropical pine forest of Azad Jammu & Kashmir (AJK), Pakistan using multi-temporal Landsat satellite data and field inventory

• Iftikhar Ahmad Khan ,

  Roles Conceptualization, Formal analysis, Methodology, Validation, Writing – original draft

  * E-mail: ik188960@gmail.com

  Affiliations Department of Forest, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan, Institute of Geo-information & Earth Observation (IGEO), PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan

  http://orcid.org/0000-0002-8930-9658

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• Mobushir Riaz Khan,

  Roles Resources, Supervision

  Affiliation Institute of Geo-information & Earth Observation (IGEO), PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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• Muhammad Hasan Ali Baig,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Institute of Geo-information & Earth Observation (IGEO), PMAS-Arid Agriculture University Rawalpindi, Pakistan

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• Zaker Hussain,

  Roles Writing – review & editing

  Affiliation Department of Forest, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

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• Nasir Hameed,

  Roles Resources, Visualization

  Affiliation Land Use Planning Section, Planning & Development Department, Azad Jammu & Kashmir, Pakistan

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• Junaid Aziz Khan

  Roles Resources

  Affiliation Institute of Geographic Information System, National University of Science & Technology- Islamabad, Pakistan

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