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Training manual for land use/land cover classification and mapping in Nigeria using SEPAL

Year of publication 2020

Place of publication Abuja, Nigeria ;

Pages 52 p.

Author FAO

Publisher FAO ;

Product type Book (stand-alone)

ISBN 978-92-5-133619-9

Edition 1

Synopsis (short abstract) This manual was designed to introduce users to the procedures for navigating SEPAL and Collect Earth Online Software in order to prepare land use/land cover mapping. The illustrations and examples are tailored to mapping Nigeria’s land cover. SEPAL is a free open source package which offers great potential to developing countries with limited access to multi-date images and limited computing resources for image processing and analyses.

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​FAO. 2020. Training manual for land cover classification in Nigeria using SEPAL. Abuja.

https://doi.org/10.4060/cb2086en

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