Download or read book Land Cover Change Detection in the Limpopo River Basin Mozambique written by M.C. de Sousa Rodrigues Pereira and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 74 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Detection and Analysis of Land Cover Change Before and After Flood in the Lower Limpopo River Basin Mozambique written by M.A. Welde and published by . This book was released on 2004 with total page 58 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Perceptions of Environmental Risks in Mozambique Implications for the Success of Adaption and Coping Strategies written by Anthony G. Patt and published by World Bank Publications. This book was released on with total page 23 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Indigenous and institutional profile Limpopo River Basin written by Anton Earle and published by IWMI. This book was released on 2006-10-17 with total page 67 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper presents an overview of water-related governance structures and institutions in the Limpopo Basin. The Basin is of critical socio-economic importance to the 14 million peopledistributed across the four riparian states of Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa and Zimbabwe.Urban centers, mostly in Botswana and South Africa, are major water users supplying industries, power stations and municipalities. Water is also used in rural areas for domestic, livestock watering and irrigation purposes. While irrigated agricultural activities are largely concentrated in South Africa and Zimbabwe, the majority of rural populations engage in rain-fed agriculture, which does not guarantee secure livelihoods. This is due, in large part, to the region’s semi-arid climate where only two out of every five agricultural seasons produce reasonable crop yields. These climatic conditions emphasize the need for effective management of transboundary water resources and effective governance structures, delivery and control mechanisms. Appropriate institutional frameworks and governance structures have a pivotal role in defining the socio-economic situation of the people in the Basin.
Download or read book Vulnerability and the Impact of Climate Change in South Africa s Limpopo River Basin written by Sharon Shewmake and published by Intl Food Policy Res Inst. This book was released on 2008 with total page 44 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Climate Change Implications for Water Resources in the Limpopo River Basin written by Tingju Zhu and published by . This book was released on 2010 with total page 16 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: This paper analyzes the effects of climate change on hydrology and water resources in the Limpopo River Basin of Southern Africa, using a semidistributed hydrological model and the Water Simulation Module of the International Model for Policy Analysis of Agricultural Commodities and Trade (IMPACT). The analysis focuses on the effects of climate change on hydrology and irrigation in parts of the four riparian countries within the basin: Botswana, Mozambique, South Africa, and Zimbabwe. Results show that water resources of the Limpopo River Basin are already stressed under today's climate conditions. Projected water management and infrastructure changes are expected to improve the situation by 2030 if current climate conditions continue into the future. However, under the four climate change scenarios studied here, water supply situations are expected to worsen considerably by 2030. Assessing hydrological impacts of climate change is crucial given that expansion of irrigated areas has been postulated as a key adaptation strategy for Sub-Saharan Africa. Such expansion will need to take into account future changes in water availability in African river basins.
Download or read book Long term land cover dynamics of the Shire River catchment Malawi Mozambique written by M.M. Pereira Horta and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book The Use of GIS and Remote Sensing Techniques to Evaluate the Impact of Land Use and Land Cover Change on the Hydrology of Luvuvhu River Catchment in Limpopo Province written by P. M. Kundu and published by . This book was released on 2015 with total page 138 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spatio temporal analysis of land cover change consequences on ecosystem service values in the Zambezi Delta Mozambique written by F.E. Kifleyesus and published by . This book was released on 2014 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Spatio temporal analysis of land use and land cover change in the transboundary Mara River Basin written by Kennedy Wekesa Murunga and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Limpopo river basin written by Southern African Development Community (SADC) Water Division and published by . This book was released on 2017 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: The Limpopo River Basin is one of the 63 transboundary river basins in Africa and is the fourth largest in southern Africa after the Congo, the Zambezi, and the OrangeSenqu basins. The basin is endowed with underground water resources that are important in supplementing surface water resources. The catchment characteristics of the basin are very diverse, covering different climatic and topographic zones, as well as land use types, including protected areas. The basin represents one of the best of what southern Africa has in terms of shared natural capital. The natural capital in the basin defines the economic activities that range from agriculture, mining and manufacturing to conservation and tourism, as well as scientific monitoring and research.
Download or read book Remote Sensing of the Environment written by John R. Jensen and published by . This book was released on 2013-07-23 with total page 614 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: For one-semester courses in Introductory Remote Sensing as well as Introductory Airphoto Interpretation. This widely adopted book introduces the fundamentals of remote sensing from an earth resource (versus engineering) perspective. Emphasis is on turning remote sensing data into useful spatial biophysical or socio-economic information that can be used to make decisions.
Download or read book Land Cover Mapping and Change Detection in Kitui Kenya written by Simeon Sagana Kanani and published by . This book was released on 1981 with total page 220 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Down to Earth written by National Research Council and published by National Academies Press. This book was released on 2002-10-24 with total page 169 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: In 1992, world leaders adopted Agenda 21, the work program of the 1992 U.N. Conference on Environment and Development. This landmark event provided a political foundation and action items to facilitate the global transition toward sustainable development. The international community marked the tenth anniversary of this conference in Johannesburg, South Africa, in August 2002. Down to Earth, a component of the U.S. State Department's "Geographic Information for Sustainable Development" project for the World Summit, focuses on sub-Saharan Africa with examples drawn from case-study regions where the U.S. Agency for International Development and other agencies have broad experience. Although African countries are the geographic focus of the study, the report has broader applicability. Down to Earth summarizes the importance and applicability of geographic data for sustainable development and draws on experiences in African countries to examine how future sources and applications of geographic data could provide reliable support to decision-makers as they work towards sustainable development. The committee emphasizes the potential of new technologies, such as satellite remote-sensing systems and geographic information systems, that have revolutionized data collection and analysis over the last decade.
Download or read book Land Cover Change Detection Analysis for the Atok Area with Special Emphasis on Chrome Mining Developmen written by Ramosweu Melvin Sethobya and published by . This book was released on 2021 with total page 0 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Land Use and Land Cover in Relation to Chromolaena Odorata Distribution written by Abaye Kindie Feleke and published by . This book was released on 2003 with total page 59 pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt:
Download or read book Detecting Land cover Change Using Modis Time series Data written by Waldo Kleynhans and published by . This book was released on 2013 with total page pages. Available in PDF, EPUB and Kindle. Book excerpt: Anthropogenic changes to forests, agriculture and hydrology are being driven by a need to provide water, food and shelter to more than six billion people. Unfortunately, these changes have a major impact on hydrology, biodiversity, climate, socio-economic stability and food security. The most pervasive form of land-cover change in South Africa is human settlement expansion. In many cases, new human settlements and settlement expansion are informal and occur in areas that are typically covered by natural vegetation. Settlements are infrequently mapped on an ad-hoc basis in South Africa which makes information on when and where new settlements form very difficult. Determining where and when new informal settlements occur is beneficial from not only an ecological but also a social development standpoint. The objective of this thesis is to make use of coarse resolution satellite data to infer the location of new settlement developments in an automated manner by making use of machine learning methods. The specific sensor that is considered in this thesis is the MODIS sensor on-board the Terra and Aqua satellites. By using samples taken at regular intervals (8 days), a hyper-temporal time-series is constructed and consequently used to detect new human settlement formations in South Africa. Two change detection methods are proposed in this thesis to achieve the goal of automated new settlement development detection using this high-temporal coarse resolution satellite time-series data.
