Mapping and estimating land change between 2001 and 2013 in a heterogeneous landscape in West Africa: Loss of forestlands and capacity building opportunities

International Journal of Applied Earth Observation and Geoinformation

Volumn 63, Issue , 2017, Pages 15-23

  Badjana, Hèou Maléki ^a   Olofsson, Pontus ^b   Woodcock, Curtis E ^b   Helmschrot, Joerg ^c,d   Wala, Kpérkouma ^a   Akpagana, Koffi ^a  

^a UNIVERSITY OF LOMÉ   (Togo)

^b BOSTON UNIVERSITY   (United States)

^c Southern African Science Service Centre for Climate Change and Adaptive Land Management   (Namibia)

^d STELLENBOSCH UNIVERSITY   (South Africa)

Author keywords

BEEODA; Capacity building; Heterogeneous landscape; Land change; Landsat; Open source; REDD; Stratified estimation; West Africa

Indexed keywords

CAPACITY BUILDING; DATA ASSIMILATION; DEVELOPING WORLD; FOREST; LAND MANAGEMENT; LAND USE CHANGE; LANDSAT; NATURAL RESOURCE; SAVANNA; SUSTAINABLE DEVELOPMENT;

WEST AFRICA;

EID: 85032483759     PISSN: 15698432     EISSN: 1872826X     Source Type: Journal    
DOI: 10.1016/j.jag.2017.07.006     Document Type: Article

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