Assessment of charcoal driven deforestation rates in a fragile rangeland environment in North Eastern Somalia using very high resolution imagery

Journal of Arid Environments

Volumn 75, Issue 11, 2011, Pages 1173-1181

  Oduori, S M ^a   Rembold, F ^b   Abdulle, O H ^a   Vargas, R ^c  

^a FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS   (Kenya)

^b JOINT RESEARCH CENTRE   (Italy)

^c UNIVERSIDAD MAYOR DE SAN SIMÓN   (Bolivia)

Author keywords

Africa; Area frame sampling; Deforestation; Ikonos; Land cover change; Quickbird; Somalia; Tiger bush; VHR imagery

Indexed keywords

ALGORITHM; CHARCOAL; CUTTING; DEFORESTATION; FIELDWORK; IMAGE RESOLUTION; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; QUICKBIRD; RANGELAND; REGROWTH; SAMPLING; SATELLITE IMAGERY; SHRUB; SPATIOTEMPORAL ANALYSIS; VISUAL ANALYSIS;

SOMALIA;

EID: 79960982975     PISSN: 01401963     EISSN: 1095922X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jaridenv.2011.05.003     Document Type: Article

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