Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Damen, M. C. J.

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Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Year of publication:: 1986

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A. A. Balkema

Identifier (digital):: 856342815

Language:: English

Additional Notes:: Volume 1-3 erschienen von 1986-1988

Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

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Persistent identifier:: 856343064

Title:: Remote sensing for resources development and environmental management

Sub title:: proceedings of the 7th international Symposium, Enschede, 25 - 29 August 1986

Scope:: XV, 547 Seiten

Year of publication:: 1986

Place of publication:: Rotterdam; Boston

Publisher of the original:: A. A. Balkema

Identifier (digital):: 856343064

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Signature of the source:: ZS 312(26,7,1)

Language:: English

Usage licence:: Attribution 4.0 International (CC BY 4.0)

Editor:: Damen, M. C. J.

Publisher of the digital copy:: Technische Informationsbibliothek Hannover

Place of publication of the digital copy:: Hannover

Year of publication of the original:: 2016

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Collection:: Earth sciences

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Title:: 4 Renewable resources in rural areas: Vegetation, forestry, agriculture, soil survey, land and water use. Chairman: J. Besenicar, Liaisons: M. Molenaar, Th. A. de Boer

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Title:: Visual interpretation of MSS-FCC manual cartographic integration of data. E. Amamoo-Otchere

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359 lion methodology for lown areas (East sia). International 1/1, Toulouse. 'logy of environmental nts in the Eastern rational Archives of Sensing, v. XXV/ A7 Dne nella valutazione azione in Italia. XXI i, Roma. )f Remote Sensing v.ll ata to crop area and tification, and soil State University, e reale del suolo in ione reale del suolo la corretta gestione à dell'ambiente, S.P. /124-129, Roma. WOOD AND Symposium on Remote Sensing for Resources Development and Environmental Management / Enschede / August 1986 Visual interpretation of MSS-FCC manual cartographic integration of data E.Amamoo-Otchere EC A Regional Centre for Training in Aerial Surveys, Ile-Ife, Oyo State, Nigeria ABSTRACT: The objective was to use the holistic and synoptic dualities o f Landsat 2 MSS-FCC taken in 1975 to re-organize from an existing stock of scattered data, a relevant description of aspects of renewable resources development situation in which the fiscal decision makers and development planners have shown keen interest. The Cartographic projection from the FCC interpretation was to illustrate the kind of information obtainable with simple techniques, but which data has so much been in short supply in the African resources development arena. The study purposefully selected "frontier development" problem because it is an important development issue in Ghana. The themes chosen and visually interpreted from the FCC, and the manual cartographic integration of the information illustrate some aspects of the ways for closincr the co-ooeration gap between mapping authorities and the national fiscal authorities. The latter, because of partly tight money situation and partly for lack of appreciation of the role of manning, usually accord low priority to the former's needs. The study area was in northern Ghana. RESUME : L'objectif était d'utiliser les qualités holistiques et synoptiques des MSS-FCC des Landsat 2, prises en 1975 pour réaranger, à partir des données éparses, une description des aspects de la situation des ressources de. développement renouvables qui intéressent grandement les organismes de décision fiscale dans la planification du développement. La projection cartoqraphique à partir de l'interprétation F.C.C. devait illustrer le genre d'information disponible à partir de techniques simples mais dont les données sont très rares dans l'arène Africaine des ressources de développement. L'étude a choisi intentionnellement le problème des "frontières du développement" parce que c'est, une question très importante du développement au Ghana. Les thèmes choisis et interprétés visuellement à partir des RCC • et l'inte gration manuelle cartographique de l'information devaient accentuer le fait que les imageries des satellites offrent actuel lement la possibilité de boucher le trou qui existe entre les autorités de la cartographie et les autorités fiscales nationales qui, à cause des finances très sérrées d'une part, et à cause d'un manque d'appréciation du rôle de la Carotographie, d’autre part, accordent une faible priorité aux besoins de cette dernière. La zone étudiée se trouve dans le nord du Ghana. BACKGROUND ISSUER The mapping situation in Africa has been reviewed in various ways vis aviz those of other developing countries. In most of the reviews the low status accorded to manning has been emphasized. In Atkin son ' s- review (1982) the tight money situation and mapping as an enterprise without immediate financial return, have induced fiscal authorities to olace low priority on mapping as far as scarce resource allocation is concerned. Yet maps have their cataly tic effect on development. As it was observed by de Hensler (1982), the main sources of haphazard planning encountered too often in developing count ries could be traced directly to the lack of adequa te mapnina. in his analysis of the situation de Hensler saw of it as a number one problem, how to communicate on cartoqraphic matters with the govem- ment authorities who hold the keys to the financial aspects of resource allocation for development. While he thought that cartographers "need not hide behind a theodolite, a plotting instrument or remain hunched over a scribing plot", this paper holds the view that, speaking out on the importance of their work, cartographers have to make their workmanships speak for themselves. Perhaps closincr the communi cation gap between mapping administrators and the fiscal authorities, mapping has to some extent simplify its technicrues of presenting to decision makers the issues of the marient according to how the fiscal authorities also see them in relation to their programmes for econanic recovery. These development issues range over land based economic and socio-ecological key variables that are very relevant to the environment and its associated development. If thematic manning of the resources and the environ ment should be stepped up to reflect as a mirror in viiich the decision makers in particular, and the land users in general, could visualize spatial patterns of their activities in the landscape, such a mirror could possiblv attract the necessary public atten tion unto mapping, its needs and role in the society, This study, looking at the aero survei llance technology situation and at the elasticity of the resultant satellite products, has experimen ted with verv rudimentary technioues o f visual inter pretation and. manual cartographic integration °f the data, to present just a few of the "stories" that fiscal and planning authorities would like to hear. In doing this, the study has believed that unless cartographers will assume the role of Shake- spear's M ark Anthony, not onlv in showing the dead body of Caesar but also his "patchment" and beyond even that, read the contents of the "patchment" in public, not much can be done to charae the public, visual impression and concrete evidence of the lands cape could attract the necessary attention. The problem, there f ore partly lies in how to select and present through cartographic medium those very relevant development issues which are the stories fiscal decision makers are likely to give ears to. The studv selected purposefully a rather politically loaded environmental and resource development issue to apply the visual interpretation and the associa ted manual cartographic data integration to. The issue was that of land development in the frontiers of Ghana. Frontiers by definition are areas characterized by remoteness, harsh physical environment, relative backwardness and underpooulation.

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