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Mapping Robusta Coffee Growing Areas in Uganda
Mapping Robusta Coffee Growing Areas in Uganda
Methodology
Robusta coffee in Uganda and any part of the world are grown under tree or shrubs
sheds and therefore, it is difficult to isolate them from conventional data processing and
analysis with ASTER or Landsat images (Balonos, 2007, Cordero-Sancho and Sader 2007).
Use of Quickbird, IKONOS or SPOT images could provide reasonable results because of
their good spatial resolution, which would support isolation of individual tree canopy over
landscape. But the cost of such images are too expensive for the purpose of this work
and therefore could not be used.
By combination landcover and suitability map, and mainly forecasting in mixed agriculture
areas, Robusta coffee growing is map (figure 3) was produced. The need to include tree
cover percentage as a factor will be significant because it would minimize errors arising
other agricultural lands without agroforestry elements.
Figure 3: Landcover and Coffee growing areas.
There area need to carry out some modification to remove sharp boundary errors, which
was due temporal difference in ASTER data.
References
1. Balonos Sandra 2007, Using Image Analysis and GIS for coffee Mapping,
Department of Geography, McGill University, Montreal, Canada.
2. Cordero Sancho S. and Sader S.A 2008, Spectral analysis and classification
accuracy of coffee crops using Landsat and a topographic-environmental model,
International Journal of Remote Sensing ,Volume 28 , Issue 7 (March 2007)-
Pages 1577-1593