Historical Generalized Difference Vegetation Index of emerging Northwest Mining Region of Ghana (2019)

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) 2019 highlights the effects of the Government of Ghana's fight against illegal mining on vegetation and 'blue mining'. These data can be used to monitor the health of vegetation before and after the fight against galamsey. Further, the data can be used to assess the success or failure of the combat against dessertation initiative of the government of Ghana in the Northwest region as against its approval for large-scale industrial mining in the same area

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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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en
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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
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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
2020-12-22T17:32:29
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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