Rates and Patterns of Forest Cover Change in the West Central Ethiopia : Application of Remote Sensing and Geographic Information System Analysis

ISBN-13: 9783846546314 / Angielski / Miękka / 2011 / 124 str.

Berhan Gessesse

Opis

This book provides the systematic discourse of the rate and pattern of forest cover change process using remotely sensed data and integrated application of geoinformatics tools. Investigating the process of forest cover change, the rationale of retrospective analysis, and the application of geoinformation science to quantify and monitor such a change are the focal points of the book. In this book remotely sensed data analysis is employed to monitor, predict, and map forest cover transformation processes in West central Ethiopia. Moreover, GIS techniques are applied to generate forest degradation vulnerability map. Lastly,the book brings to light causes of forest cover change and the impact of this change on the environment.

O autorze

Berhan Gessesse holds BA degree in Geography and MSc in GIS and Remote Sensing from Addis Ababa University. He served as a GIS specialist in GeoMark Systems Company and published several articles.Currently, he is a lecturer at Kotebe College and PhD fellow at Addis Ababa University and Ferderic-Alexander University,Germany.