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

2. 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)

3. Monthly max NDVI and min NDWI August – April - January

4. The Africa window

5. Some details

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

7. The locust window FAO / JRC

8. 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

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

10. 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

11. Eastern Africa FAO-AFRICOVER Validation LCCS

12. 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

13. Madagascar UNEP – GRID Validation

14. The situation