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GREEN SPACES IN BENGALURU: QUANTIFICATION THROUGH

GEOSPATIAL TECHNIQUES

T.V. Ramachandra*, Bharath H. Aithal, Gouri Kulkarni, Vinay S

Energy & Wetlands Research Group, Centre for Ecological Sciences [CES],
Indian Institute of Science, Bangalore, Karnataka, 560 012, India,
Web URL: http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/energy; http://ces.iisc.ernet.in/foss,
*Corresponding author:cestvr@ces.iisc.ernet.in


ACKNOWLEDGEMENT

We are grateful to Dr.Vamana Acharya, Chairman, Karnataka State Pollution Control Board for assigning this task to us, which is academically rewarding.  We thank Karnataka state Pollution Control Board for the financial support. We acknowledge the sustained financial and infrastructure support to our ecological and environmental research from (i) the Ministry of Environment, Forests and Climate Change, Government of India, (ii) NRDMS Division, the Ministry of Science and Technology (DST), Government of India and (iii) Indian Institute of Science.