Assessing land use and land cover change in the Wassa West District of Ghana using remote sensing

GeoJournal

Volumn 71, Issue 4, 2008, Pages 249-259

  Kusimi, John Manyimadin ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF GHANA   (Ghana)

Author keywords

Deforestation; Image classification; Land use and land cover change; Remote sensing; Surface mining in Ghana; Wassa West District

Indexed keywords

BIODIVERSITY; CANNING; DEFORESTATION; DEVELOPING COUNTRIES; EROSION; FOOD PRESERVATION; IMAGE ANALYSIS; IMAGE CLASSIFICATION; LAND USE; LANDFORMS; MINING; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MECHANICS; SPACE OPTICS;

(1 1 0) SURFACE; BUSH FIRES; BUSINESS MEDIA; CLIMATIC CHANGE; CLOSED CANOPY (CC); CULTURAL PRACTICES; DRIVING FORCES; FOOD PRODUCTIVITY; HUMAN ACTIVITIES; IMAGE DIFFERENCING; LAND COVER (LC); LAND COVER CHANGES; LAND USE AND LAND COVER CHANGE (LULC); LANDSAT TM; LOCAL PEOPLE; MEDICINAL PLANTS; POPULATION GROWTH; PRIMARY FORESTS; RELIANCE (CO); SOCIO ECONOMIC; SOIL EROSION; SPRINGER (CO); VEGETATIVE COVER;

FORESTRY;

ASSESSMENT METHOD; CLASSIFICATION; DEFORESTATION; LAND COVER; LAND USE; LAND USE CHANGE; MINING; REMOTE SENSING;

BIODIVERSITY; DEFORESTATION; EROSION; FOOD; FORESTRY; IMAGE ANALYSIS; LAND USE; MINING; PRESERVATION; REMOTE SENSING; SOIL MECHANICS;

AFRICA; GHANA; SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA; WASSA WEST; WEST AFRICA; WESTERN REGION;

EID: 47649091613     PISSN: 03432521     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10708-008-9172-6     Document Type: Article

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