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GIScience & Remote Sensing, 2018 The availability of freely available moderate-to-high spatial resolution (10–30 m) satellite imagery received a major boost with the recent launch of the Sentinel-2 sensor by the European Space Agency.
Gerald Forkuor +3 more
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Land, 2023 Food security is adversely affected by challenges posed by changes in land use and land cover (LULC). LULC change impacts ecosystem functions and services, leading to migration of people, particularly rural dwellers.
Sunday Opeyemi Okeleye +3 more
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Non-Stationary Flood Frequency Analysis in the Ouémé River Basin, Benin Republic
Hydrology, 2015 A statistical model to predict the probability and magnitude of floods in non-stationary conditions is presented. The model uses a time-dependent and/or covariate-dependent generalized extreme value (GEV) distribution to fit the annual maximal (AM ...
Jean Hounkpè +3 more
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Geography, Environment, Sustainability, 2023 The Intergovernmental Panel on Climate Change has predicted that sub-tropical regions are more vulnerable to climate change’s negative effects (CC). Additionally, to CC, land use and land cover (LULC) changes and dam construction, often neglected, play ...
Djan’na K. Houteta +6 more
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Agricultural and Food Economics, 2018 Weather index-based crop insurance is increasingly becoming important as a risk mitigation strategy that farmers may use to mitigate adverse climate shocks and natural disasters encountered during farming.
William M. Fonta +3 more
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Assessment of WRF Land Surface Model Performance over West Africa
Advances in Meteorology, 2020 Simulations with four land surface models (LSMs) (i.e., Noah, Noah-MP, Noah-MP with ground water GW option, and CLM4) using the Weather Research and Forecasting (WRF) model at 12 km horizontal grid resolution were carried out as two sets for 3 months ...
Ifeanyi C. Achugbu +5 more
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Heliyon, 2023 Waste facilities siting is one of the complex problems encountered by decision makers of waste management in urban developing areas. Waste to Energy (WtE) facilities siting alongside transfer stations involves a Multi-Criteria Decision Analysis (MCDA ...
Kanlanféi Sambiani +3 more
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A note on methods for vertical accuracy assessment of DEMs
Geografia (Londrina), 2017 This study investigates the vertical accuracy of a DEMs interpolated from 1:50,000 contours with universal kriging (UK) using DEMs interpolated from 1:10,000 contours as the independent source of higher accuracy following the geospatial accuracy ...
Marvin E. Quesada, Matthew Marsik
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Social Sciences, 2018 This study examines the influence of farmers’ social capital on their decisions to deal with climate change and climate variability in Burkina Faso. The study is based on a household survey conducted among 450 households, randomly selected from three ...
Thomas B. Yaméogo +2 more
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Data in Brief, 2016 This article describes two datasets generated from various sources in south western Burkina Faso to identify the key climate and environmental drivers that cause farmers to migrate. The survey sampling is random but reasoned and rational.
Safiétou Sanfo +3 more
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