Satellite-based tree cover mapping for forest conservation in the drylands of Sub Saharan Africa (SSA): Application to Burkina Faso gazetted forests

While monitoring the effectiveness of forest conservation programs requires accurate data on (changes in) forest cover, many countries still lack the ability to map local forest inventory, especially in the drylands of Africa where forest areas are very sparsely covered. In this paper, we present a...

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Main Authors: Guigonan Serge Adjognon, Alexis Rivera-Ballesteros, Daan van Soest
Format: Article
Language:English
Published: Elsevier 2019-01-01
Series:Development Engineering
Online Access:http://www.sciencedirect.com/science/article/pii/S2352728517300891