Historical Generalized Difference Vegetation Index of emerging Northwest Mining Region of Ghana (2010)

The Generalized Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI) is a modification of the Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (NDVI), which has been proposed by Weicheng Wu (2014) for the assessment of dryland environments due to the inadequacy of the NDVI in these areas. The Generalised Normalised Difference Vegetation Index (GNDVI) 2010 presents a wider outlook of the environmental effects of illegal artisanal small-scale gold mining (galamsey) in the Northwest region of Ghana. However, vegetation displacement in the area cannot entirely be attributed to galamsey. There has been a fast urban growth that is leading to vegetation clearance. The question is, can the trends of urban growth and vegetation depletion be associated to illegal mining? These are some of the scientific questions that these data will help to address. This notwithstanding, how could the looming large-scale gold mining excerbate the observed trends of environmental and land cover change in the Northwest region of Ghana? These data help to address all these relevant questions.

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Date ( Publication )
2020-09-01
Status
Completed
Originator
University College Dublin (UCD) - Wadood Moomen ( )

Maintenance and update frequency
Not planned
Keywords ( Place )
  • Ghana
Keywords ( Theme )
  • Land use
  • Agriculture
  • Mining
  • Urbanisation
  • Rural communities
  • Emerging mining region
  • Displacement
  • Vegetation
  • Biodiversity
  • Ecosystems
  • Sustainable Mining
  • Sustainable Development
  • Generalized Normalised Difference Vegetation Index
  • GNDVI
  • NDVI
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Metadata language
en
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Begin date
2010-01-01
End date
2010-12-31
Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
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Dimension size
1
Resolution
0.00027470270107  degrees
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Dimension size
1
Resolution
0.00027060309154  degrees
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Metadata language
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Character set
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Date stamp
2020-12-22T17:30:45
Metadata standard name
ISO 19115:2003/19139
Metadata standard version
1.0
Point of contact
UN Environment-GRID Geneva - Antonio Benvenuti ( )

 
 

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Keywords

Agriculture Biodiversity Displacement Ecosystems Emerging mining region GNDVI Generalized Normalised Difference Vegetation Index Land use Mining NDVI Rural communities Sustainable Development Sustainable Mining Urbanisation Vegetation

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