TITLE:
Change Detection: Estimating the Footprint of the Kribi Agro-Industrial and Urban Port Complex (Cameroon) from Landsat Imagery
AUTHORS:
Jean Megope Foonde
KEYWORDS:
Bi-Temporal Assessment, Change Detection, Land Cover, Landsat, Remote Sensing
JOURNAL NAME:
Open Access Library Journal,
Vol.5 No.5,
May
15,
2018
ABSTRACT:
In the coastal South region of Cameroon, 26.000 ha of land once covered by forest is doomed by the development of a significant infrastructure: the Kribi Agro-Industrial and Urban Port Complex. Important earthwork was undertaken to set-up this “structuring project” which is presented as the ultimate propeller for the industrialization of the entire Central Africa region. This paper is the first of a series aiming to use pixel-based digital image differencing to determine the footprint of the Kribi Agro-Industrial and Urban Port Complex at its present stage of development. Hopefully it triggers sound decisions and awareness on the fate of this biome, part of the Congo Rainforest.