Detecting Land Degradation Using Geospatial Data
- Creators
- Digital Earth Africa
- Project members:
- Ghana Environmental Protection Agency1
- Ghana Statistical Service2
- 1. Ghana Environmental Agency
- 2. Ghana Statistical Service (GSS)
Description
The Apamprama Forest Reserve in central Ghana is a forested area housing a portion of the Ofin river, interspersed with volumes of semi-deciduous trees and medicinal herbs. The reserve also contains rich gold deposits. Ghana's Environmental Protection Agency (EPA) and Ghana Statistics Service (GSS) wanted to use electro-optical satellite data to understand the health of the reserve's ecosystem and identify factors that were adversely affecting this ecosystem.
Land degradation was identified as the primary issue facing Apamprama Forest Reserve, additional data analysis was needed to understand environmental changes in time series and to formulate a plan to halt the degradation. The Vegetation Change and Detection data analysis tools give greater insight into the dramatic sprawl of land degradation in the reserve, highlighting the rapid increase in potential mining activity between 2017 and 2020.
Additional details
- Created
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2022-12-13