Although wetlands in Tanzania and Kenya have great potentials for agricultural production
and a multitude of uses, many of them are not even documented on official maps. Lack of …

Water logging areas are basically designated by water affluences in permanent or seasonal
basis. But due to accelerated rate of human intervention and human induced modification of …

The increasing population in the develo** countries has rendered wetlands vulnerable to
land use changes. Remote sensing offers a rapid and efficient means of data acquisition of …

The Bakonjo have long practiced an agroforestry system of cultivation on the Ugandan
slopes of the Rwenzori Mountain range. All terrain above 1600–2200 m has been strictly …

Wetlands, which serve as transitional zones between terrestrial and aquatic environments,
play a crucial role in providing diverse ecosystem services for the sustenance of wildlife and …

In this article, we present a protocol for the recognition of channels and waterbodies and for
estimating their hydroperiod to both characterize a megafan system in northern Amazonia …

Wetland degradation due to anthropogenic activities including artisanal gold mining is
widely common in Uganda, and this affects vegetation health status if not controlled …

Remote Sensing (RS) and Geographic Information System (GIS) approaches, combined
with ground truthing, are providing new tools for advanced ecosystem management, by …

Since the early 1980s, satellite imagery has been commonly used to detect change in
wetlands. The overall objective of this study is to utilize remote sensing and Geographic …

This chapter deals with the first objective of this study. An introduction is initially given on the
significance of remote sensing in detection and monitoring of wetland ecosystems. The …