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Title:Challenging desertification in West Africa: insights from Landsat into carrying capacity, cultivation, and settlement sites in Upper Volta and Niger
Author:Reining, PriscillaISNI
Year:1979
Issue:39
Pages:165
Language:English
Series:Papers in international studies, Africa series (ISSN 0078-9100)
City of publisher:Athens
Publisher:Ohio University, Center for International Studies
ISBN:0896801020
Geographic terms:Burkina Faso
Niger
Subjects:droughts
remote sensing
land use
agricultural land
Abstract:The study was conducted in 1973 in support of the Grain Stabilization Program of the United States Agency for International Development. The study itself was designed to yield estimates of the numbers of people that could be supported by the land resources of two villages in Niger and one in Upper Volta. More specifically, the work was a first attempt to use imagery from the Earth Resources Technology Satellite 1 (ERTS 1 now Landsat 1) in making such estimates for countries of the Sahelian zone.
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