Lopé National Park, Gabon

Participants at the remote sensing & GIS workshop

Participants at the 2000 CARPE-GOFC Remote Sensing & GIS Workshop

Objectives

Provide remote sensing and GIS products and support for wildlife conservation and forest management
Evaluate the utility of multi-sensor data fusion on vegetation mapping

Project Activities

Conducting regional emote sensing & GIS training workshop on forest monitoring for foresters and conservation practitioners
Mapping vegetation types using wavelet-based fusion of radar and optical satellite data

Products & Applications

Below are vegetation maps produced using Landsat imagery and fusion of Landsat and "Mission Aéroportée Radar SAR" data for the forest-savanna interface in the northern part of the Lopé National Park. To obtain the full-resolution products and their metadata files, please contact Nadine Laporte.

Vegetation Maps of the Forest-Savanna Interface

Derived from Landsat data (Bands 3, 4, 5)	Derived from the fusion of Landsat & SAR data

Future Outlook

No future activities have been planned at the moment.