Africa overview of the GLC2000 activities Philippe Mayaux & Michel Massart Institute for Environment and Sustainability, EC Joint Research Centre, Italy.

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Africa overview of the GLC2000 activities Philippe Mayaux & Michel Massart Institute for Environment and Sustainability, EC Joint Research Centre, Italy

The overall context 30,000,000 km 2 From dry deserts to tropical rain forests Evergreen (forests, deserts) and seasonal (savannahs, grasslands) ecosystems Permanent clouds in equatorial regions Isolated continent  no overlap with other windows 1 continental window (baseline map) + regional windows (improvements)

Monthly max NDVI and min NDWI August – April - January

The Africa window

Some details

Global land-cover maps IGBP DIS-CoverUniversity of MarylandGLC 2000VGT colour composite

The locust window FAO / JRC

The CILSS window Centre AGRHYMET (Niger) and Université Catholique de Louvain (B) Seasonality Focus on validation techniques 11 Sahelian countries Centre de Suivi Ecologique (Senegal) involved in the validation process

The Central Africa window JRC (M. Massart) Focus on rain forests Cloud-cover (in coastal part) Mosaic of single- date classifications in evergreen regions

The Great Lakes window Université Catholique de Louvain and Musée Royal d’Afrique Centrale (B) Important region in terms of biodiversity (Albertine Rift) Rain forests, miombo woodlands, grasslands, swamps, agriculture Topography, cloud cover

Eastern Africa FAO-AFRICOVER Validation LCCS

The Southern Africa window Instituto Superior de Agronomia and Tropical Research Institute (Lisbon) From miombo woodlands to Namibia deserts, seasonality New composition techniques (image of May 2000) Classification is coming CSIR involved in the validation process

Madagascar UNEP – GRID Validation

The situation