Kongnso Wiylahnyuy Edith

Assessment of the Waza Logone Floodplain Wetland Loss and Degradation: Using Geospatial Tools Kongnso Wiylahnyuy Edith

The book is an assessment of the Waza Logone floodplain wetland loss and degradation using geosapatial tools. It is aimed at assessing the extent of loss and degradation of the Waza Logone floodplain from 1986-2010, with the following objectives; to determine the extent of Land Use/Land Cover (LULC) change of Waza Lagone Floodplain over the years, assess the extent of degradation of the vegetation cover, relationship between precipitation and wetland lost and degradation and assess the effect of population pressure on the Floodplain. Landsat TM and ETM, Rainfall estimates from TRMM and Centre de Climatologie de Yaoundé, and Population data from BUCREP (Bureau Centrale de Resenssement et des Etudes de la Population) were used for the study. The images were classified using supervised classification (Maximum likelihood).