Land cover mapsEliePadonouUniversity of Abomey-Calavi, EU project UNDESERTPB 241 CocotomeyAbomey-Calavi00229BeninEliePadonouassociatedPartyBriceSinsinCo-owner2015-02-04Three sub-scenes of Landsat imagery for the years 1975 (Landsat Multi-Spectral Scanner), 1990 (Landsat Thematic Mapper) and 2010 (Landsat Enhance Thematic Mapper plus) were interpreted to obtain the land cover maps. degraded savanna farmland forest tree savanna woodlandland useObtain permission from data set owner(s)The Republic of Benin is located in tropical West Africa, between 6°30 and 12° North Parallels and 1° and 3°40 East Meridians. The maps were produced for the municipality of Banikoara (11°18 0 North and 2°25 East), situated in the Northern region of Benin2.41672.416711.311.31975-02-012010-02-01EliePadonouUniversity of Abomey-CalaviPB 241 CocotomeyAbomey-Calavi00229Beninpadonouelie@yahoo.fr
Land use land cover change
The elaborate maps were incorporated into multi-date geographic information system (GIS) using ArcGIS 10 software. An overlaying analysis was performed in order to assess pathways of change observed among the three periods analyzed, and locate sites where these changes occurred.
Transition probability matrices were elaborated for the periods 1975–1990, 1990–2010 and 1975–2010 in order to describe the change of state of each land cover class.
In order to explore the possible future evolution of land degradation, an analysis was conducted based on the annualized transition matrices, assuming that the LUCC follow a Markovian dynamic
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