Advances in monitoring vegetation and land use dynamics in the Sahel

Geografisk Tidsskrift

Volumn 114, Issue 1, 2014, Pages 84-91

  Mbow, Cheikh ^a   Fensholt, Rasmus ^b   Nielsen, Thomas Theis ^c   Rasmussen, Kjeld ^b  

^a WORLD AGROFORESTRY CENTRE ICRAF   (Kenya)

^b UNIVERSITY OF COPENHAGEN   (Denmark)

^c ROSKILDE UNIVERSITY   (Denmark)

Author keywords

earth observation; environmental change; land use; vegetation productivity; West African Sahel

Indexed keywords

AGROFORESTRY; CLIMATE EFFECT; DECADAL VARIATION; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; GRAZING PRESSURE; LAND USE CHANGE; MODEL VALIDATION; PASTORALISM; SATELLITE DATA; VEGETATION DYNAMICS; WILDFIRE;

SAHEL [SUB-SAHARAN AFRICA];

EID: 84895512376     PISSN: 00167223     EISSN: None     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1080/00167223.2014.886515     Document Type: Article

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