Landscape Dynamics Assessment of Mount Namuli Region, Zambezia province, Mozambique

This repository includes output data from the Landscape Dynamics Assessment (LDA) of Mount Namuli region based on satellite-observed land cover and vegetation change. This assessment, produced by Nitidae, is composed of four analysis:

- Land use and land cover mapping of Mount Namuli region for the year 2020: this section aims to update the 2018 LULC map using Sentinel 2 image.

- Analysis of land degradation: this section aims to assess the underlying factors (human or climatic) in vegetation (natural or cultivated) productivity changes over the 2000-2016 period, in order to assess land degradation of Mount Namuli region.

- Analysis of historical deforestation: this section aims to map forest extent and deforestation in the Namuli core area over the 2000-2020 period on the basis of Landsat images.

- Analysis of risks of future deforestation: this section aims to map future threatened forest patches in the Namuli core area, based on historical deforestation and comprehension of the deforestation drivers.