The Map Is not the Territory: How Satellite Remote Sensing and Ground Evidence Have Re-shaped the Image of Sahelian Desertification On the other hand, a growing number of field studies of vegetation dynamics across the Sahel offer a more fine-scaled and nuanced picture of changes. ... SM He...
On July 26, Niger suffered a coup, or perhaps a show of force that escalated into a coup. Initially, the Presidential Guard surrounded the palace of President Mohamed Bazoum. Soon, a group of military officers proclaimed themselves the Conseil national pour la sauvegarde de la patrie (National...
Based on the 2015 Copernicus Dynamic Land Cover map at 100 m resolution, the extent of fallow fields in the cropland class is estimated to be 63% (403,617 km) for the Sahel in 2017. Similar results are obtained for five contemporary cropland products, with fallow fields occupying 57鈥 ...
Morocco has offered intelligence that helped arrest Jihadists or foil attacks in France, Belgium, Italy, Spain, Germany, Burkina Faso, Sri Lanka and recently the United States, Cherkaoui said. "Our success hinges on continued intelligence sharing with our partners," Cherkaoui said. (Reporting by A...
In his 2008 tour of the Sahel, UN Secretary-General's Special Adviser on conflict, Jan Egeland toured a Lake Faguibine restoration project in Mali and said: “When all the world's leaders are there [in Copenhagen] we must ask if we are really going to let life-saving projects like thi...
To leverage the strength of each classifier, we developed a classifier ensemble (CE) map based on the mapping accuracy of each land use class and each classifier. The results of this study showed that the performance of individual classifiers depends on feature selection method and accuracies ...
Labels on the x axis stand for 3-month seasons, e.g., JFM for January, February, and March. The inserted map in a shows the Sahel region (12˚ N–17˚ N, 20˚ W–40˚ E). The smaller multi-data set uncertainty range in precipitation is apparently due to a greater number ...
Source: Image generated at Windy.com (© OpenStreetMap contributors) on March 7th, 2019. Such wind patterns are common across the Guinea coast and on into the Sahel. Moreover, the extent of wet season rainfall across the coast and in the Sahel differs significantly (Fig. 4). Favorable ...
Groundwater Resource Map of Africa BGR, Hanover and UNESCO, Paris (Ground Water Resources of the World Project). Williams, M.A.J., Adamson, D.A., 1981. Late Quaternary depositional history of the Blue and White Nile rivers in central Sudan. In: Williams, M.A.J., Faure, H. (Eds.)...
MaliTraditional Dogon harvest ceremony in Tirelli, Mali, on the east side of the Bandiagara Escarpment. The rest of the population is composed of numerous agricultural groups, some of whom aredescendedfrom the peoples of the ancient empires ofGhana,Mali, andSonghai. TheBambara(Bamana), who live...