Standardizing land cover mapping for tsetse and trypanosomiasis decision making

PAAT TECHNICAL AND SCIENTIFIC SERIES 8

Standardizing
land cover mapping for
tsetse and trypanosomiasis
decision making

Giuliano Cecchi
Raffaele C. Mattioli
Jan Slingenbergh
Stéphane de la Rocque

IFAO Animal Health Service

Udo Feldmann

Joint FAO/IAEA Division of Nuclear Techniques in Food and Agriculture

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FOOD AND AGRICULTURE ORGANIZATION OF THE UNITED NATIONS
Rome, 2008

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Table of Contents

Part 1   [201Kb]

    Contents
    Abstract
    Acknowledgements
    Acronyms
    Introduction

Part 2   [424Kb]

    Chapter 1: Tsetse fly habitat and land cover: an analysis at continental level

    Tsetse habitats
    Land cover classification systems: concepts and definitions
    Matching tsetse habitat and land cover: possible approaches
    Tsetse habitat and land cover in sub-Saharan Africa: an inductive approach

Part 3   [828Kb]

    Chapter 2: Standardized land cover for T&T decision-making

    High resolution land cover maps: Africover and Global Land Cover Network
    Defining a standardized legend for land cover mapping in T&T decision-making
    Land cover suitability for tsetse flies: a deductive approach

Part 4   [685Kb]

    Chapter 3: Case study: land cover of Uganda for T&T decision-making

    Thematic aggregation of the Africover database of Uganda for tsetse habitat mapping
    Land cover map of Uganda for T&T
    Land cover suitability for tsetse flies in Uganda

    Conclusions
    References

Part 5   [372Kb]

    Annex 1 Land cover for T&T decision-making: standard description
    Annex 2 Land Cover for T&T decision-making: classifiers used
    Annex 3 Land Cover of East Africa for T&T: table of class aggregation
    Annex 4 LCCS user defined labels (abbreviation list)
    Annex 5 Land Cover of Uganda for T&T: standard description
    Annex 6 Land Cover of Uganda for T&T: classifiers used
    Annex 7 Land Cover of Uganda for T&T: table of class aggregation
    Annex 8 Crop statistics in Uganda
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