Historical Land Cover of emerging Northwest Mining Region of Ghana (1990)

This shows the existing land use and land cover of the Northwest region of Ghana prior to exploration and illegal mining activities in the area. The 1990 land cover data would instigate keen observations about the trends of land cover and land use change and the dynamics of the change, which could be associated to either mining or unsustainable local exploitation of naturals resources in the area. Thus, the data gives a three decade landscape outlook of the area, which could be used as baseline data for monitoring and validating the environmental responsiveness of both small-scale and large-scale mining activities in the Northwest Mining Region of Ghana.

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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
Access constraints
License
Use constraints
License
Other constraints
To be defined
Spatial representation type
Grid
Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Topic category
  • Geoscientific information
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Begin date
1990-01-01
End date
1990-12-31
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 )
Hierarchy level
Dataset
Statement
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File identifier
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Metadata language
en
Character set
UTF8
Date stamp
2020-12-22T17:28:09
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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