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Rajesh Bahadur Thapa
Researcher at International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development
Publications - 129
Citations - 3265
Rajesh Bahadur Thapa is an academic researcher from International Centre for Integrated Mountain Development. The author has contributed to research in topics: Optical fiber & Fiber laser. The author has an hindex of 26, co-authored 122 publications receiving 2841 citations. Previous affiliations of Rajesh Bahadur Thapa include Japan Aerospace Exploration Agency & University of New England (Australia).
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New global forest/non-forest maps from ALOS PALSAR data (2007–2010)
Masanobu Shimada,Takuya Itoh,Takeshi Motooka,Manabu Watanabe,Tomohiro Shiraishi,Rajesh Bahadur Thapa,Richard Lucas +6 more
TL;DR: In this article, four global mosaics of Advanced Land Observing Satellite (ALOS) Phased Arrayed L-band Synthetic Aperture Radar (SAR) HH and HV polarization data were generated at 25m spatial resolution using data acquired annually from 2007 to 2010.
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Drivers of urban growth in the Kathmandu valley, Nepal: Examining the efficacy of the analytic hierarchy process
TL;DR: In this article, the authors explored the driving factors of urban growth in Kathmandu valley using analytic hierarchy process and found that the dynamic pattern of urban growing in the valley has been greatly influenced by seven driving factors: physical conditions, public service accessibility, economic opportunities, land market, population growth, political situation, and plans and policies.
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Land evaluation for peri-urban agriculture using analytical hierarchical process and geographic information system techniques: A case study of Hanoi
TL;DR: In this paper, an integrated technique of analytical hierarchical process (AHP) and geographic information system (GIS) is presented to evaluate the land for peri-urban agriculture.
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Examining spatiotemporal urbanization patterns in Kathmandu Valley, Nepal: remote sensing and spatial metrics approaches.
TL;DR: The refill type of development process in the city core and immediate fringe areas has shown a decreasing trend in the neighborhood distances between land use patches, and an increasing trend towards physical connectedness, which indicates a higher probability of homogenous landscape development in the upcoming decades.
Glacial lakes and glacial lake outburst floods in Nepal
Achyuta Koirala,Sanjeev Shrestha,Rajendra Bahadur Shrestha,M. Eriksson,Binod Gurung,Narendra Raj Khanal,Bijaya Pokharel,Basanta Shrestha,Wu Lizong,Pawan Kumar Ghimire,Rijan Bhakta Kayastha,Sharad Joshi,Rajesh Bahadur Thapa,Suman Panthi,Tirtha Raj Adhikari,Pradeep K. Mool,Pravin R Maskey,Arun Bhakta Shrestha +17 more
TL;DR: In this article, the authors present a stepwise approach to assessment of risk beginning with an extensive desk study of aerial photographs and satellite images that provided the first reconnaissance mapping of more than a thousand glacial lakes.