Development of a New Method of Desertification Evaluation of the Sahel Region : The Land Use Component is Analized by Remote Sensing and GIS Techniques 1950-1990 - Final Report of Stage 1

The projects objective is to develop a method allowing for an evaluation of a possible environmental degradation occurred in various Sahelian countries in the last decades. In case this method (after improvement as recommended in the last chapter) is considered as valid, it will provide Sahel countries and the international community with tocalised and homogeneous geographical information concerning the desertification phenomenom over the entire West African area (as a first step).