Mapping deforestation and urban expansion in Freetown, Sierra Leone, from pre- to post-war economic recovery

Environmental Monitoring and Assessment

Volumn 188, Issue 8, 2016, Pages

  Mansaray, Lamin R ^a,b,c   Huang, Jingfeng ^b,c   Kamara, Alimamy A ^a  

^a Sierra Leone Agricultural Research Institute (SLARI)   (Sierra Leone)

^b ZHEJIANG UNIVERSITY   (China)

^c Key Laboratory of Agricultural Remote Sensing and Information System   (China)

Author keywords

Change detection; Civil war; Freetown; GDP growth; Land cover; Population growth

Indexed keywords

DEFORESTATION; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL MANAGEMENT; FORESTRY; MAXIMUM LIKELIHOOD; SIGNAL DETECTION; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT; WETLANDS;

CHANGE DETECTION; CIVIL WAR; FREETOWN; GDP GROWTH; LAND COVER; POPULATION GROWTH;

POPULATION STATISTICS;

WATER;

CIVIL WAR; DEFORESTATION; ECONOMIC GROWTH; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT ASSESSMENT; GROSS DOMESTIC PRODUCT; LAND COVER; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; MAPPING; POPULATION GROWTH; SUSTAINABILITY; URBANIZATION;

ARTICLE; BARREN; DEFORESTATION; DENSE FOREST; ECONOMIC ASPECT; ECONOMICS; ENVIRONMENTAL CHANGE; ENVIRONMENTAL IMPACT; ENVIRONMENTAL PARAMETERS; ENVIRONMENTAL PLANNING; ENVIRONMENTAL PROTECTION; ENVIRONMENTAL SUSTAINABILITY; FOREST; GRASSLAND; GROSS NATIONAL PRODUCT; INFRASTRUCTURAL DEVELOPMENT; LAND BIOME; LAND BUILT UP; LAND COVER CONVERSION; LAND USE; MANGROVE; NONHUMAN; POPULATION GROWTH; POST WAR ECONOMIC RECOVERY; PRE WAR ECONOMIC RECOVERY; SIERRA LEONE; SOCIOECONOMICS; SPARSE FOREST; URBAN AREA; URBAN EXPANSION; URBANIZATION; WETLAND; AGRICULTURE; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; PROCEDURES; REMOTE SENSING; WARFARE;

FREETOWN; SIERRA LEONE; WESTERN AREA;

AGRICULTURE; CONSERVATION OF NATURAL RESOURCES; ECONOMIC DEVELOPMENT; ENVIRONMENTAL MONITORING; ENVIRONMENTAL POLICY; FORESTS; GRASSLAND; REMOTE SENSING TECHNOLOGY; SIERRA LEONE; URBANIZATION; WARFARE; WETLANDS;

EID: 84978696607     PISSN: 01676369     EISSN: 15732959     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1007/s10661-016-5469-y     Document Type: Article

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