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A preliminary investigation of mapping land use and vegetation in Sierra Leone by computer processing LANDSAT data

HF-ID: HF1976-02
Category: Research Files
Creator:
- Baltaxe, Robert
Date: 1976
Location: Sierra Leone (West Africa)
Media: Paper
Contents:
- MFS thesis. 1 accordion folder.
Keywords: aerial photography, land use history, mapping, off forest
Abstract:
- With the inception of the Landsat program in 1972, computer processing of multispectral satellite data provided a potentially cheap and rapid method for producing land use and vegetation maps of extensive areas. A Land Resources Survey project in Sierra Leone provided the context for a preliminary investigation of the application of existing computer programs to the production of such maps for a representative area in the humid tropics.
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