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Land Cover and Land Use Change in Tropical Rainforest of Africa

SIR-C coverage map of Cameroon, Central African Republic, Congo, Equatorial Guinea, Gabon, and Zaire. The project uses high resolution satellite imagery has to map areas of forest clearing and general land cover types for the entire Central African tropical region. Images acquired by JERS-1 SAR (Synthetic Aperture Radar) instrument during its global rain forest mapping (GRFM) phase are the main source of data for this study.

URL: http://southport.jpl.nasa.gov/centralafrica/

Languages: English

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Africa by Region : Central Africa
Organisations : Government and Inter-Government
Research and Information Sources : Maps and Imaging

Added 12-Mar-2002
Last updated 12-Mar-2002
Last checked 24-Jun-2005