Change Detection: Estimating the Footprint of the Kribi Agro-Industrial and Urban Port Complex (Cameroon) from Landsat Imagery - Open Access Library Journal

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Volume 5, Issue 5 (May 2018)

ISSN Print: 2333-9705 ISSN Online: 2333-9721

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Change Detection: Estimating the Footprint of the Kribi Agro-Industrial and Urban Port Complex (Cameroon) from Landsat Imagery ()

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DOI: 10.4236/oalib.1104550 391 Downloads 1,523 Views Citations

Author(s)

Jean Megope Foonde

Affiliation(s)

Department of Geography, Northern Illinois University, DeKalb, USA.

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.

KEYWORDS

Bi-Temporal Assessment, Change Detection, Land Cover, Landsat, Remote Sensing

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Megope Foonde, J. (2018) Change Detection: Estimating the Footprint of the Kribi Agro-Industrial and Urban Port Complex (Cameroon) from Landsat Imagery. Open Access Library Journal, 5, 1-17. doi: 10.4236/oalib.1104550.

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