Evaluating the trade-off between food and timber resulting from the conversion of Miombo forests to agricultural land in Angola using multi-temporal Landsat data

Science of the Total Environment

Volumn 548-549, Issue , 2016, Pages 390-401

  Schneibel, Anne ^a   Stellmes, Marion ^a   Röder, Achim ^a   Finckh, Manfred ^b   Revermann, Rasmus ^b   Frantz, David ^a   Hill, Joachim ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF TRIER   (Germany)

^b UNIVERSITY OF HAMBURG   (Germany)

Author keywords

Agricultural expansion; Earth observation; Ecosystem services; Fallow regeneration; Multi temporal analysis; Trade off analysis

Indexed keywords

BIOMASS; CULTIVATION; DEFORESTATION; ECOLOGY; ECONOMIC AND SOCIAL EFFECTS; ECOSYSTEMS; EXPANSION; FORESTRY; REFORESTATION; TIMBER;

AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION; EARTH OBSERVATIONS; ECOSYSTEM SERVICES; FALLOW REGENERATION; MULTI-TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TRADE-OFF ANALYSIS;

AGRICULTURE;

AGRICULTURAL EXTENSION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; FALLOW; LANDSAT; SATELLITE DATA; TEMPORAL ANALYSIS; TIMBER; TRADE-OFF;

AGRICULTURAL EXPANSION; AGRICULTURAL LAND; ANGOLA; ARTICLE; BIOMASS; BIOMASS REGROWTH; CROP PRODUCTION; DEFORESTATION; ECOSYSTEM SERVICE; ENVIRONMENTAL ASPECTS AND RELATED PHENOMENA; FALLOW; FOREST; HARVEST; INFORMATION PROCESSING; LANDSAT; MAIZE; MEASUREMENT ACCURACY; PRIORITY JOURNAL; TRADE OFF; WOOD; AGRICULTURE; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

ANGOLA; OKAVANGO BASIN;

ZEA MAYS;

AGRICULTURE; ANGOLA; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; FORESTS; SATELLITE IMAGERY;

EID: 84954483784     PISSN: 00489697     EISSN: 18791026     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.scitotenv.2015.12.137     Document Type: Article

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