Projects in Africa

HAPEX-Sahel Niger ERS-1 Windscatterometer study for land applications.

Country: Niger

Period: 1991 - 1997

Objective(s): Passive and active microwave remote sensing research for soil moisture estimation and climate research in the framework of Eos (NASA) and IGBP core project BAHC.

Partners: European Union, UNESCO, NASA, ESA/ESTEC (funding), BCRS (funding).

Tropenbos-Cameroon radar basemaps

Country: Cameroon

Period: 1994

Objective(s): develop radar planning maps for the Tropenbos-Cameroon programme project using 2 frequencies and 2 polarizations from data taken during the NASA Shuttle Imaging Radar experiment (SIR-C)

Partners: NASA, Tropenbos-Cameroon (funding)