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8. ACKNOWLEDGEMENTS 
Financial support by the Stichting voor Wetenschappelijk 
Onderzoek van de Tropen (The Netherlands Foundation for the 
Advancement of Tropical Research, WOTRO) and International 
Institute for Geo-information Science and Earth Observation 
(ITC), the Netherlands are greatly acknowledged. We are 
grateful to the staff of the ITC library for their support.