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| | | | | | | TIGER workshop highlights project results
28 November 2006
| The transition between lowland fields and mountains in the Western Cape region of South Africa is highlighted in this image, acquired on 6 October 2005 by the Compact High Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (CHRIS) onboard ESA’s Proba micro-satellite.
Credits: SIRA through ESA 2005 | |  |  | |
| | | | | The TIGER workshop 2006 was held from 20 to 24 November in Cape Town, South Africa, to review the results achieved to date and to attend training sessions organised by ESA and UNESCO.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | | | EO observations of the Lake Chad area have been used, jointly with ground information, to derive and analyse changes in landcover. The information, produced by the GlobWetland project, has been delivered in a Geographic Information System to the end-user, the lake Chad Basin Commission, as a tool to support management practices in the area. | | | | |
| | | | | The fertile green territory of Egypt's Nile Delta provides a notable contrast to the bare desert of the Sinai Peninsula in this Envisat view.
Only 2.5% of Egypt's land area is suitable for agriculture, corresponding to the Nile Valley and Delta. These low-lying floodplains are some of the oldest intensively cultivated areas on Earth, supporting up to 1600 inhabitants per square kilometre.
This 14 February 2005 image was acquired by Envisat's Medium Resolution Imaging Spectrometer (MERIS), working in Full Resolution Mode with a spatial resolution of 300 metres and width of 670 km.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
| | | | | Following the conclusion of the TIGER workshop 2006, ESA and UNESCO organised training sessions. ESA’s training focused on advanced optical data from Envisat’s MERIS instrument for use in detecting and monitoring land cover, vegetation index, etc., while UNESCO offered basic remote-sensing training for wetland management.
Credits: ESA | | | | |
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