Abstract
Land-Use Change Assessment in Tugi Village, Cameroon Track: Forestry, Wildlife, and Fisheries Management Author(s): Rita Ngolan Population growth in rural and urban areas has caused changes in land use/cover at local and global scales alike. This study aims to assess the changes in land use/cover in Tugi area, Momo Division, North West Province of Cameroon by applying remote sensing and GIS techniques. Bi-temporal satellite imagery (Landsat TM 1986 and Landsat ETM 2003) were processed using ArcView and Erdas Imagine software to determine the types and extent of land use changes. Image processing included geo-referencing, principal component analysis, pan-sharpening and supervised classification of both historic and recent data. Indiscriminate burning of grasslands, weak forestry and land management policy and topography were identified as the main driving forces. Re-enforcement of local traditional and government land use policies and development of a management plan for the almost-vanished patch natural forest in the study area will obviously reverse some, if not all the recorded negative changes. Rita Ngolan Institute of Remote Sensing and Photogrammetry, TU Dresden, Germany Remote Sensing and GIS Wundtstr. 5 Dresden 01217 DE Phone: 00493514065203 E-mail: lemnrita@yahoo.com |
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