Historical Land Cover of emerging Northwest Mining Region of Ghana (2019)

The 2019 land cover data mark the biophysical state of the area, three decades after the Rio conference: (1) after the government of Ghana fight against galamsey (illegal artisanal small-scale gold mining), and (2) the initial environmental parameters for validating the environmental and social impact assessment reports prior to the finalisation of construction of large-scale mining sites waiting for commissioning. This data makes it possible to map the mining activities onto the Agenda 2030 SDGs, making it easy to take critically relevant decisions, track the activities of the large-scale operations as well as small-scale illegal mining operations, and mitigate the environmental hazards

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Date ( Publication )
2020-06-01
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
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Other constraints
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Spatial representation type
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Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Begin date
2019-01-01
End date
2019-12-31
Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
1
Resolution
0.000273757336888  degrees
Dimension name
Row
Dimension size
1
Resolution
0.000273757336971  degrees
Cell geometry
Area
Transformation parameter availability
No
Distribution format
  • GeoTiff ( Not Set )

OnLine resource
Project website ( WWW:LINK-1.0-http--link )
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File identifier
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Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2020-12-22T17:28:21
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 Land use Mining Rural communities Sustainable Development Sustainable Mining Urbanisation Vegetation

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