African forest are increasingly in decline as a result of land-use conversion due to human activities. However, a consistent and detailed characterization and mapping of land-use change that results ...
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Why Africa looks smaller than it really is on Google Maps
Africa is not happy with how Google Maps portrays it. The popular Mercator map projection, used by Google Maps and many other online maps, distorts the size of landmasses, making Africa look small ...
But the climate and weather on this great continent is amazingly varied. The Sahara desert can often reach temperatures of 50 ...
European powers were slow to realize the benefits of grabbing African territories, but once the mad rush to claim land started in 1876, the continent was quickly — and at times brutally — overrun. By ...
Satellite Earth observations (EO) can provide affordable and timely information for assessing crop conditions and food production. Such monitoring systems are essential in Africa, where food ...
THE RESIDENTS of Goma are no strangers to war. The largest city in the east of the Democratic Republic of Congo (DRC) has long been a refuge for those fleeing from violence elsewhere in one of the ...
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