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Assessment of Land Cover and Land Use in Central and West Asia and North Africa. Part 1: Land Cover/Land Use- Base Year 1993

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Title Assessment of Land Cover and Land Use in Central and West Asia and North Africa. Part 1: Land Cover/Land Use- Base Year 1993
 
Creator Celis, David
 
Contributor De Pauw, Eddy
Geerken, Roland
 
Subject west asia
 
Description This publication is the first in a two-volume report of a regional assessment of land use and land cover in the Central and West Asia and North Africa (CWANA) region using remote sensing techniques and low-resolution satellite imagery.
It also covers the results of collaborative work from 1998 to 2002 between ICARDA and the Center for Earth Observations of Yale University in 'Remote Sensing for Natural Resource Management and Environmental Assessment'. Undertaken with financial support from the USAID Linkage Fund of the United States of America to the Consultative Group on International Agricultural Research (CGIAR).
It introduces a new method for identifying land use/land cover (LCLU) at a regional scale. based on analysis of the Advanced Very High-Resolution Radiometer (A VHRR) imagery for the base year 1993. and provides a map of land use/land cover for the entire CWANA region at I-km resolution.
LCLU is of paramount importance for assessing meteorological conditions (including climatic variability and change) and environmental trends. ICARDA is therefore. a keen partner in studies to assess LCLU across its mandate region. This study offers a 1993 baseline for land management research. It is hoped the data will be updated in the near future, in order to monitor large-scale changes in land use/land cover that are indicators of land use intensification, desertification, climate change or variability.
 
Date 2024-04-29T19:58:50Z
2024-04-29T19:58:50Z
 
Type Book
 
Identifier https://mel.cgiar.org/reporting/download/hash/30b4fca850095a4f00cb9b7f779c213d
David Celis, Eddy De Pauw, Roland Geerken. (31/12/1993). Assessment of Land Cover and Land Use in Central and West Asia and North Africa. Part 1: Land Cover/Land Use- Base Year 1993. Beirut, Lebanon: International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA).
https://hdl.handle.net/20.500.11766/69274
Open access
 
Language en
 
Rights CC-BY-SA-4.0
 
Format PDF
 
Publisher International Center for Agricultural Research in the Dry Areas (ICARDA)