Central african forest cover and cover change mapping

This chapter presents the most recent available results on the spatial distribution and the evolution of Congo Basin forests, based on the processing and analysis of a vast amount of satellite images acquired over the last two decades. First, it will detail a new map of the forest types built upon previous studies and taking advantage of a combination of the best satellite data available. Then, the best available estimation of land cover change is described thanks to two complementary land cover change studies respectively based on: (i) a sample of Landsat sub-scenes covering the entire territory of the 6 forested countries, (ii) a wall-to-wall coverage of Landsat mosaics for the DRC.

ERNST Céline;  VERHEGGEN Astrid;  MAYAUX Philippe;  HANSEN Matthew C.;  DEFOURNY Pierre; 

2012-07-04

Publication office of the European Union

JRC69266

978-92-79-22716-5,   

1018-5593,   

https://publications.jrc.ec.europa.eu/repository/handle/JRC69266,   

10.2788/47210,