Analysis of land use/cover changes and animal population dynamics in a wildlife sanctuary in East Africa

Remote Sensing

Volumn 1, Issue 4, 2009, Pages 952-970

  Mundia, Charles Ndegwa ^a   Murayama, Yuji ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TSUKUBA   (Japan)

Author keywords

GIS; Land use cover; Masai Mara ecosystem; Post classification analyses; Wildlife habitat

Indexed keywords

EAST AFRICA; ECOLOGICAL IMPACTS; ECOLOGICAL SYSTEMS; ECONOMIC DATA; LAND USE/COVER; LAND USE/COVER CHANGE; MASAI MARA ECOSYSTEM; MULTITEMPORAL SATELLITES; POST CLASSIFICATION; WILDLIFE CONSERVATION; WILDLIFE HABITATS; WILDLIFE POPULATIONS; WILDLIFE SPECIES;

CONSERVATION; ECOSYSTEMS; POPULATION DYNAMICS;

ANIMALS;

EID: 80051761140     PISSN: None     EISSN: 20724292     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.3390/rs1040952     Document Type: Article

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