The overall objective of Ruvuma Landscape Integrated Monitoring Approach is to establish efficient/effective methods of field data collection, storage, analysis, early warning and dissemination for sustainable natural resource management within Villages/Districts.
Forest Canopy Density (FCD) refers to the proportion of an area in the field/ground that is covered by the crown of trees and is expressed in percentage of the total area.
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A vegetation index (VI) is a spectral imaging transformation of two or more image bands designed to enhance the contribution of vegetation properties and allow reliable spatial and temporal inter-comparisons of terrestrial photosynthetic activity and canopy structural variations.
1. https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Vegetation_index
2. https://www.indexdatabase.de/
Nitrogen dioxide (NO2) and nitrogen oxide (NO) together are usually referred to as nitrogen oxides (NOx = NO + NO2). They are important trace gases in the Earth’s atmosphere, present in both the troposphere and the stratosphere. They enter the atmosphere as a result of anthropogenic activities (notably fossil fuel combustion and biomass burning) and natural processes (such as microbiological processes in soils, wildfires and lightning).
The MODIS Fire_cci Burned Area pixel product version 5.1 (FireCCI51) is a monthly global ~250m spatial resolution dataset containing information on burned area as well as ancillary data. It is based on surface reflectance in the Near Infrared (NIR) band from the MODIS instrument onboard the Terra satellite, as well as active fire information from the same sensor of the Terra and Aqua satellites.
Forest Canopy Density (FCD)
refers to the proportion of an area in the field/ground that is covered by the crown of trees(grass?) and is expressed expressed in percentage of the total area.
The basic objectives of FCD
is to enable policy-makers to
access information on the status of
forest conditions conditions and formulate science-based decisions and actions.
