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    Land use change and carbon fluxes in East Africa quantified using earth observation data and field measurements

    Journal Articles & Books
    December, 2013
    Tanzania, Malawi, Eastern Africa
    Land, Climate Change & Environment
    Forest Tenure
    land cover
    deforestation

    Carbon-based forest conservation requires the establishment of ‘reference emission levels’ against which to measure a country or region's progress in reducing their carbon emissions. In East Africa, landscape-scale estimates of carbon fluxes are uncertain and factors such as deforestation poorly resolved due to a lack of data. In this study, trends in vegetation cover and carbon for East Africa were quantified using moderate-resolution imaging spectroradiometer (MODIS) land cover grids from 2002 to 2008 (500-m spatial resolution), in combination with a regional carbon look-up table.

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