Historical Land Cover of emerging Northwest Mining Region of Ghana (2010)

The 2010 land use and land cover data of the emerging Northwest mining region shows the current state of environmental conditions in the area, two decades after the Rio Conference, and how this has been impacted by illegal mining or quarrying or large-scale exploration activities in the area. This data could also be used to identify the gaps that need to be filled before the commencement of large-scale mining in the very nearest future. It is important to ask how this data could be used to inform relevant decision making on illegal mining in the area. The simple answer to the question is that environmental and land use impacts of the activities can be identified and mitigated, the presence and movement patterns of both illegal small-scale gold mining (galamsey) and large-scale mining can be tracked and estimate their environmental footprint using this data. Potential conflicts with regards to land use and concession encroachment could also be averted with these data.

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Date ( Publication )
2020-05-01
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
2010-01-01
End date
2010-12-31
Reference system identifier
WGS 1984
Number of dimensions
2
Dimension name
Column
Dimension size
1
Resolution
0.000273757336888  degrees
Dimension name
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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
2020-12-22T17:28:31
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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